Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | [RFC] New modutils maintainer | Date | Sun, 08 Aug 1999 10:25:23 +1000 |
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Modutils development seems to have stopped (see history below). I hereby volunteer to become the modutils maintainer.
If anybody objects to this or wishes to become the modutils maintainer themselves, please contact <kaos@ocs.com.au> before August 15. Otherwise I will designate myself as the modutils maintainer and start publishing patches on August 16.
Please do not send me any modutils patches until August 16.
History.
Modutils development passed from Richard Henderson to Bjorn Ekwall in early March, 1999. Patches were issued on http://www.pi.se/blox/modutils/ up to March 25 but nothing since.
I have patches to include in modutils to assist ksymoops (which I maintain). Several mails to Bjorn since April 8 got no response.
On July 19, I mailed every name that appeared in modutils source and man pages. I asked if they were going to maintain modutils and offered my time if not, with a date of July 26 for me to send this announcement to l-k. Nobody objected, a couple of people encouraged me.
On July 26, Bjorn Ekwall responded saying he had been too busy and "It might be a good idea to plan for a transfer of responsibility, although I really should put the final touches on the current version before that". I have received nothing from Bjorn since that first mail on July 26, despite reminder emails on August 2, 4 and 6.
Changes have been made to the modutils CVS tree which do not appear on the web pages.
Given the imminent code freeze for 2.4, I want to get modutils up to date. Hence this RFC.
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