The Goodies projects

[Diego Ongaro]

Mike Massonnet wrote:
> Le dimanche 05 juillet 2009 21:49:37, Brian J. Tarricone a écrit :
>> On 07/05/2009 06:00 AM, Mike Massonnet wrote:
>>> On another note, I hope we can discuss the fact that Goodies do not
>>> belong to the maintainers.
>> Very much disagree.  They do indeed belong completely to the maintainers.
>>
>> +1 for what Diego said.  If you want to take over maintainership of a
>> project or otherwise declare it orphaned or abandonware, you need to
>> contact the maintainer individually and give him/her a good chance to
>> respond (I'd say 3-4 weeks, with maybe a reminder email midway through).
> 
> This is the current state of getting maintainance right over a project. 
> Keeping it this way is OK, and the wiki page Ali mentions will very much be 
> encouraging.
> 
> However regarding the translations, I don't want that someone needs to take 
> maintainance rights as it is only about bumping the release and tagging. If it 
> is OK, after the wiki page is set up, I will mail each individuals of the 
> projects that didn't see a release for long enough, and let them know that I'm 
> going to make a new release for the translations in the coming 2 weeks. 

You say you're "going to make a new release for the translations", but 
really you'd be releasing whatever's in trunk. It's an important 
difference to note, particularly if trunk is not in such a releasable state.

-Diego