The Goodies projects

[Mike Massonnet]

Le lundi 06 juillet 2009 12:34:00, Diego Ongaro a écrit :
> 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.

I didn't even start to dig into the projects, to know which one can be 
released.

Mike

> -Diego