Re: Hula history?

[Michael Schwendt <bugs michael gmx net>]

On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 01:13:06 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> mschwendt, or anyone else,
> 
> Does anyone know what's going on with hula? I was researching it and
> ran across its strange history in Extras.  Checked it out of cvs and saw
> a bunch of interesting stuff in the spec file.  I was curious if there
> was any record of why things were that way but didn't dig up anything
> enlightening with bugzilla or googling the fedora mailing lists.
> 
> I did find this point of confusion, though (note the dates):
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2005-April/msg00439.html
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-commits/2005-April/msg00882.html
> 
> Kevin Gray -- hula-kevin iprone.com appears to be the former maintainer
> and is currently maintaining upstream's packages for Fedora Core:
>   http://www.hula-project.org/Downloads
> 
> At this point I'm unclear whether this package was approved for
> inclusion into Extras or if the maintainer was sponsored and mistakenly
> thought he should import the package into cvs at that point.  If it's a
> legitimate orphan I'll look into contacting Kevin and picking it up if
> he doesn't want to continue.

Compare with:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-February/msg02216.html

Notice Cc. No response.

In my Sent folder I see I mailed him 2005-07-23, but I don't think I've
seen a reply ever.