Re: Status of txt2tags (possible hijack)
On 05/08/2009, at 18:56, Christian Surchi wrote:
Il giorno mer, 05/08/2009 alle 10.34 +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire ha
scritto:
Hi,
I'd like to get some work done on the txt2tags package, which seems
to
have an inactive maintainer, csurchi.
...
Hi jonathan,
I apologise for my long absence here and also for the lack of
feedback.
Hi Christian,
Good to finally hear from you. :)
I couldn't find any time to come back to my packaging duties,
because of
many reasons, work and no spare time, but slowly I came back to
reconsider my packages, starting from some of them. I'd like to come
back to take care of txt2tags too, but I'm not so sure about being so
active about all the bugs at the moment.
I fixed - among with the upstream - all but one.
You can find the binary and source at
http://edermarques.net/pacotes/txt2tags/
I have nothing against the
intervention of someone else, active and strongly interested in the
project. :)
Was you aren't able to find under the last year and the QA team didn't
help into this matter, the upstream is pointing the download of the
updated
debian versions to my website. This is helping the users to get up-to-
date versions.
Of course that have this available by apt and official sources is much
better. :)
Ales Zabala Alava and Eder Marques wrote me in past about the same
thing, and he was interested in helping, so maybe joining the forces
could be a good thing. :) I added them to the recipients of this
message.
Very kindly of you to added me. I appreciate that.
I understand that you have reasons to be MIA. I just don't understand
why Debian
preferred to keep the package outdated since 2006 if there's people
offering help.
On August 2008 the upstream come to me asking if I could create a
package to txt2tags
(I currently maintain a package from the same upstream). Since that I
tried to contact
you and following the Developers Reference, tried to get the package
orphaned.
As anything that works, I just give up of getting txt2tags updated
via the Debian way,
and start to maintain for the upstream and txt2tags community the
"unofficial" version.
With all respect and just being honest, if you have plans to really
start sooner to maintain txt2tags
will be great to have it update on debian repositories. But if you
will still just holding it, IMHO
will be better just you "pass the torch" to other that can take care
and have more time.
If you decide to orphaned it, just let me know that and I can adopt
it, but I am really tired
after spend an year trying to get txt2tags updated on Debian and the
project didn't care about
my help.
Kind regards,
--
Eder L. Marques
Just another weekend hacker
http://blog.edermarques.net/ | http://www.debian.org/
http://administrando.net/ | http://www.debianbrasil.org/
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