Re: dealing with dead projects
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Sam Powers wrote:
> I've got a package, xmms-liveice, which is very, very unstable. The
> upstream author has moved on to other projects, and doesn't seem
> particularly interested in making the code work better.
Beat him over the head with some of ESR's writings, specifically the part
which states that the final responsibility of a free software author is to
find an appropriate successor when your own interest has died. <grin>
> It's an xmms plugin, written in C. I don't know C, so I can't fix the bugs
> myself. How should I go about finding an interested party to get this code
> stabalized?
Not a lot of hope. Unless there's a C programmer out there who is
sufficiently annoyed by the deficiencies to do the work, you've got two
basic choices:
1) Learn C and do it yourself, or
2) Pay someone to do it for you.
Brutal, but there aren't a lot of alternatives. Maybe someone would take it
on as a personal interest learning project, but your chances of getting
top-quality from that are pretty slim.
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