Requesting FESco member permission for package takeover because of AWOL maintainer

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Mon Jul 16 10:54:23 UTC 2007


Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>>> Once upon a time Monday 16 July 2007, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>> <resending with different subject because of lack of response.
>>>>   Notice that according to the policy this does not need to be voted 
>>>> on at
>>>> the next Fesco meeting, I just need permission from a single FESco 
>>>> member,
>>>> Thanks!>
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I would like to take over gnome-applet-sensors from Aaron Kurtz
>>>> (a.kurtz at hardsun.net) because he is AWOL. Several contact attempts have
>>>> been made and 2 mails have been sent to this list about it, one on 
>>>> the 30th
>>>> of may this year:
>>>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-May/msg00986.html 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And one more one week ago. Also he has been pinged several times 
>>>> through
>>>> bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235655
>>>>
>>>> Thus I hereby ask formal permission from FESco to take 
>>>> gnome-applet-sensors
>>>> over from him, as required by:
>>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Policy/AWOL_Maintainers
>>>
>>> Hans,  Im ok with you taking over gnome-applet-sensors
>>>
>>>> Aaron also maintains:
>>>> cfv
>>>> feh
>>>> gnome-applet-netspeed
>>>>
>>>> Julian Sikorski has stated that he is willing to take over
>>>> gnome-applet-netspeed. Since I maintain imlib2 I'll take over feh as it
>>>> will be good to maintain atleast one application using it. I've no 
>>>> interest
>>>> in cfv, so I propose to orphan it.
>>>
>>> Sounds ok to me also.  its there anyone who wants to maintain cfv?
>>>
>>> Dennis
>>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> I've filed CVS admin requests for gnome-applet-sensors, 
>> gnome-applet-netspeed and feh. I'll wait a bit for a new owner to step 
>> up before orphaning cfv.
> I'll take cfv if no one actually using it wishes to.
> 

Okay,

If no one else responds, please file a CVS admin request to make you the new owner.

Thnaks & Regards,

Hans




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