Am 10.02.2010 12:26, schrieb Firmicus: > I am thus proposing this: I'll stay on board and will continue > maintaining my stuff until we have found someone who is ready to take up > maintainance of the texlive packages. I have written a collection of > helper scripts for this purpose which are publically available on our > projects page. Of course I'd also be available for help. So that should > be feasible by anyone who uses TeX Live already, knows its internals > moderately well (configuration files and tools, web2c, kpathsea, etc), > and is not afraid of complex build processes. I hope this can be > achieved within the next, say, six months, but hopefully sooner, since > our baby is expected early April and I won't have much time in the three > months thereafter. Ideally that person should be one of you, which would > make things very easy, but I don't think this is realistic, given the > workload you already have. There is also the possibility of moving the > texlive pkgs back to community if a TU is interested, but I'd really > prefer they stay in extra.
I definitely want to keep texlive in extra, we have lots of packages depending on it. I also love that we have the latest and greatest of it - I have a direct comparison to SuSE, they have texlive-2007 within their 11.1 release, lacking tons of features that I need (especially tikz-related). We brought you on especially for texlive, and I would at any time bring on someone new to only maintain texlive. I would even prefer if you could "mentor" him or her on the usage of your scripts for a few weeks so it all runs smoothly. While I don't have the time or energy to maintain it myself, I will do everything else in my power to keep texlive working as well as it does now!
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