Re: Taking over pcmcia-cs
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 08:02:22PM -0500, Brian Mays wrote:
> "Per Olofsson" <pelle@dsv.su.se> wrote:
>
> > Brian is still not responding, and I think I've become the current de
> > facto maintainer of pcmcia-cs. Therefore, I intend to take over the
> > package, if it's okay with everyone. I hope I'm following the right
> > procedure now, please correct me if I'm not :)
>
> All I ask is a little patience as I sort out this mess caused by account
> and email problems. The events of the past several months has increased
> job of getting up to date with the current status of my packages by
> a factor of three. The additional correspondence that has occurred
> in the BTS of pcmcia-cs has probably increased the effort required
> again. Thus, I have to digest what has been done, assess whether it has
> broken anything (which in my experience of maintaining this package
> for the past 8 years, it often does), and fold it in properly to my CVS
> repository. For now, I have to sort through my collection of emails
> (those that I have actually received) and determine what needs to be
> done. I shall be away at a conference at the end of this week and out
> of touch.
>
It seems a good reason to be co-maint and/or being helped.
Key packages like that cannot stay idle for unavailability
of a single maintainer.
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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