Re: Taking over pcmcia-cs
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 20:02 -0500, Brian Mays wrote:
> I'm still around; however, the MY_DOOM virus hit my system hard in
> February. Thus, I have hundreds of emails to go through, and some of
> the emails that were sent to me earlier in the year were permanently
> lost as excess mail to my inbox were deleted after it was filled to its
> limit with worthless virus mails and spurious bounce messages.
Okay, I understand.
> I fixed quite a large number of bugs in batch in November, a release
> that incorporated several months of work. I was all set to follow with
> further releases at that time, but the Debian systems were compromised,
> and as a result, I still do not have access to some of my Debian
> accounts, which are useful for performing work and uploading new
> releases.
Did you ask anyone to sponsor your uploads? That's what I did.
> 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.
Sure, but I was planning to do another upload this week and I am still
planning to do it, as there are bugs which need to be fixed. I agree
with Francesco, I think you need a co-maintainer. Would it be okay
with you if I add myself to Uploaders?
--
Pelle
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