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Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer?
From: |
Karl Berry |
Subject: |
Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer? |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:11:35 -0500 |
Hi Juergen, Micha, Micah, and all,
Glad to see such a rapid and prolific response!
Let's see. First, one easy answer is yes, there is a ceremony for
appointing new maintainers, at which rms officiates :). Developers who
do not already maintain another GNU package need to look at the coding
standards, etc. I try to shepherd people through that process.
For screen, it seems we now have a plethora of experienced and
knowlegeable "developers" but no one with time to be the "maintainer",
unfortunately. And yes, there should be a maintainer -- the person who
pushes through new releases and in general is ultimately responsible for
taking care of the project. For reference:
http://gnu.org/help/evaluation.html#whatmeans
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Recruiting-Developers.html
Assuming that no one here can commit to that, yes, we should look for a
new maintainer -- notices on the screen web page and savannah project
pages are good, GNU home page, etc. I can do that if that's the way we
want to go.
Screen is such a popular and long-standing program, it's especially
important to have it be actively maintained. The last release I see on
ftp.gnu.org is from 2004 :(.
One immediate issue is that, as a GNU package, the license should be
upgraded to "GPLv3 or later". If you don't want to make a new release
with technical changes now (which would be ideal), then could one of you
prepare a release simply changing all the 2's to 3's in the license
notices and changing the COPYING file to the new text?
How does all that sound?
Thanks again,
Karl
- [screen-devel] screen maintainer?, Karl Berry, 2008/06/11
- Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer?, Juergen Weigert, 2008/06/11
- Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer?, Micah Cowan, 2008/06/12
- Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer?, Juergen Weigert, 2008/06/12
- Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer?, Micah Cowan, 2008/06/12
- Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer?, Juergen Weigert, 2008/06/12
- Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer?, Micah Cowan, 2008/06/12
- Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer?,
Karl Berry <=
- Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer?, Micah Cowan, 2008/06/12
- Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer?, Karl Berry, 2008/06/14
- Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer?, Juergen Weigert, 2008/06/13
- Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer?, Karl Berry, 2008/06/14
Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer?, Michael Schroeder, 2008/06/14
Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer?, David Douthitt, 2008/06/25