On 10/02/2010 13:18, Thomas Bächler wrote:
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!
Yes, that's what I implied above. I will happily mentor the new
maintainer. I hope this will happen sooner than later, but on the other
hand, the packages are fresh and shining and won't need to be updated
for a while[¹], so this mentoring could as well occur next summer.
F
[¹] Users can still keep their system up-to-date in their TEXMFLOCAL
tree with my utility texlive-localmanager in AUR.
