Re: Intend to take over wmaker, application?
Marcelo E. Magallón wrote:
> my name is Marcelo Magallón, and I'd like to take over the
> maintainance of wmaker
Yay!! Maybe we'll get a new version now. :-)
> since there are several bugs against wmaker, in
> particular a mixed dependencies bug. I have tried to contact the current
> maintainer, Neil A. Rubin <nar5@po.cwru.edu>, but he doesn't seem to be
> at that email anymore.
He's only been out of touch since 31 august. That's not too long in real world
terms, esp. if he got hit hard by finals and then went on winter break.
Of course window maker has come a long way in that time and we desperately
need a new release. However, you might want to consider just doing
non-maintainer releases for a few months, in case he shows up again, and
spend some more time hunting him down and finding out if he wants to keep
maintaining it.
He still seems to be attending cwru.edu; he has a web page at
http://b62724.student.cwru.edu/~nrubin/. There, he lists a different email
address you could try: nar5@po.cwru.edu. Also, by fingering him I found
another email, nrubin@imsa.edu. By the way, finger says he's been active
recently:
joey@kite:~>f nrubin@b62724.student.cwru.edu
[b62724.student.cwru.edu]
Login: nrubin Name: Neil A. Rubin
Directory: /home/nrubin Shell: /bin/tcsh
Office: 108 Hitchcock, x7-1697 Home Phone: +1-708-362-4989
Last login Mon Dec 22 17:27 (EST) on ttyp0 from 173-52-205.ipt.aol.com
...
> I have several local packages for WindowMaker:
I'd be happy to try any/all of these if you put them up for ftp someplace.
> The wmaker package closes all bugs filed agaisnt Neil's package.
>
> A couple of weeks ago I sent an application to
> new-maintainer@debian.org, but I haven't received an answer yet. I
> maintain ftp://simula.efis.ucr.ac.cr/pub/debian, and I already have
> accounts on master, mmagallo, and mmagallM, but my PGP key is not in the
> keyring.
Don't give up, it takes time, but you'll get in there. :-)
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