Someone please take over these packages

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 06/17/2008 09:59 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 June 2008 12:14:10 pm Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:18:13 -0400
>>
>> jwilson at redhat.com (Jarod Wilson) wrote:
>>     
>>> For a variety of reasons, I have to entirely give up involvement in a
>>> number of packages. I've already tried to find new primary
>>> maintainers without success, but I really can't justify any time
>>> spent on these packages any longer, so I must orphan them ASAP, and
>>> hopefully, someone picks them up...
>>>
>>> emerald (compiz-fusion alternate windowing thingamajig)
>>> emerald-themes (themes for the above)
>>> ganglia (cluster monitoring software)
>>> numpy (numerical python)
>>>
>>> I've also got the following packages for which I've yet to solicit
>>> new maintainers for that I am also intending to orphan Real Soon Now:
>>>
>>> conman (console management software)
>>> connect-proxy (helper to use ssh through socks/squid proxy)
>>> dircproxy (detachable irc proxy)
>>> powerman (power management software)
>>>
>>> I'll keep myself on the cc for bugzillas for all of the above, and
>>> will try to help with any bugs filed, personal free time permitting.
>>> Most of these are relatively low on time investment required to
>>> maintain them, but volume adds up, particularly given that I only
>>> actually use two of these packages on any sort of regular basis these
>>> days (conman and dircproxy).
>>>       
>> I can take dircproxy, since I use it all the time...
>>     
>
> Much appreciated. Not much to report on dircproxy, upstream is mostly inactive 
> most of the time, occasionally posts an updated beta (like, once every year 
> and a half). I know there's one patch in the fedora build to fix a crash on 
> receiving a zero-length message that I don't believe has made its way back 
> upstream (my fault, forgot about it 'til now).
>
> Five down, three to go... C'mon people, you know you want emerald and 
> emerald-themes... connect-proxy is dead-simple, but dunno how many people 
> actually have use for it (I did 3 years ago, notsomuch anymore...).
>
>   
Just for the record (after reading  
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/connect-proxy/devel/connect-proxy.spec?rev=1.3&view=markup 
) shouldn't %source  be http://www.meadowy.org/~gotoh/ssh/connect.c 
rather than the filename that is used now ?