On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 12:11:36PM -0400, Ryan Coyner wrote: > Hello Mr. Fenski Hi. > As the maintainer of the package calcurse (at least until yesterday) I > was surprised, both good and bad, this morning to check my email and > find that a new version of calcurse has been uploaded to Debian. > > I was surprised in a good way because the upload of version 1.4 was > overdue and is now complete. That's great for the users of calcurse. > The delay in packaging the update was entirely my fault and had to do > with personal circumstances. My personal problems aside, it's great > that a upload of calcurse occured to get the unstable package > up-to-date. > > I was surprised in a bad way because with the new upload of version 1.4, > I see that I have been replaced as the maintainer of the package. I > thought that there was a process, at least informal and out of courtesy > if not actually formal, where someone desiring to take over a package > would contact the present maintainer and ask if he/she would be willing > to part with the package. Either the present maintainer would agree > and give up the package or not agree and hopefully invite the person to > either co-maintain or assist with the package in some other way. I tried to contact you several times. Mails sent to your address were bouncing all the time. I contacted your sponsor and talked about it with him. As a conclusion we decided that I can hijack this package. > Please let me know if I've misunderstood the adoption process. I > absolutely love the Debian project and look forward to contributing my > time and effort to it in the future. However I must admit that I'll > think twice about packaging software in the future if there is indeed a > policy where a DD can simply take over maintainence of a package without > even sending me a courtesy email. > > From the bug reports you've filed against calcurse it's clear to me that > you probably are the perfect person to maintain it, so in the final > analysis I have no issue with you becoming the maintainer. But like I > said, I thought there was a process regarding adoption. Please don't feel offended. I tried to contact you several times and I hijacked this packaged because I couldn't do that. Feel free to reupload calcurse with you in the maintainer line again. I'm willing to sponsor your upload if you want. regards fEnIo -- ,''`. Bartosz Fenski | mailto:fenio@debian.org | pgp:0x13fefc40 | irc:fEnIo : :' : 32-050 Skawina - Glowackiego 3/15 - malopolskie v. - Poland `. `' phone:+48602383548 | proud Debian maintainer and user `- http://skawina.eu.org | jid:fenio@jabber.org | rlu:172001
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