Re: Stepping down as (main) lintian developer
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I think it is time for me to put the current status into words.
> Reflecting on my (in)ability to dedicate time and find motivation to
> work on Lintian in the past 2-3 months, has made it clear to me that I
> am no longer really actively developing on Lintian.
>
> In practise, this changes little as the change has already sort of
> happened. But it does mean I no longer consider myself a "do'er" on
> Lintian and accordingly, no longer one to make decisions.
>
> As time permits, I will still be around to do an occasional bug fix or
> do/sponsor uploads if/when needed.
> Currently, I also retain an admin account for the lintian alioth
> project and a "lintian"-gid to maintain lintian on lintian.d.o. These
> two roles (from experience) requires a lot less time than keeping up
> with the bugs/feature requests, so I believe I can still maintain these.
>
> Bastien: I know I you asked me to review several branches/patches of
> yours. As much as I would love to do it, I don't want you to wait for me.
> I will advice you to adopt a "silence is acceptance"-approach to
> patches and exploit that we have such a extensive test suite. Those two
> things were the my basics to "success"/getting things done.
Thanks for all niels. I have prepared a release but i need your help
in order to pass the release.
Some test fail and I have no idea why.
Bastien
>
> ~Niels
>
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