Re: surfraw ultimatum

[Stephen Stafford <ssta@pol.ac.uk>]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 05:53:53PM -0500, Thomas Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 07:06 AM, Stephen Stafford wrote:
> >Okay, I'm now so pissed off with this, here's what's going to happen.
> ><etc>
> I strongly believe that this is an overreaction.  Christian is willing 
> to work with us to bring the package up to date, so there is no reason 
> not to accept this.  I suggest that someone (I could do it) sets up an 
> Alioth project for surfraw, so that the non-DD's who are interested can 
> more easily contribute (using cvs or subversion).  This would also be 
> nice since upstream is dead (according to Christian).  Christian or I, 
> or any other developer who wants to get involved, can do the actual 
> uploads.
> 
> From what I have seen, Christian seems excited about having a surfraw 
> package that is actively maintained, especially if he can be involved 
> in it... so this seems like a good idea to me.
> 
> Does this seem reasonable?

Yes, I believe that I did somewhat overreact.  Blame lack of sleep, or just
that I'm a reactionary.

An Alioth project for surfraw sounds good to me.  If you, or Christian are
willing to coordinate this, then that makes sense to me.  As long as hte
package gets some active maintenance.

I see no reason Christian and the two non-DDs can;t be involved.  If the
uploads are going to be made, there's no reason for Christian not to remain
the maintainer of record, perhaps with a couple of people in the Uploaders:
field so that if someone has a lack of time, it doesn't impact badly on the
package.

See my reply to Christian elsewhere.

Cheers,

Stephen