Peter Donald wrote:
I have also the other view: I keep receiving email from people asking for help on ant tasks I wrote but not maintain anymore and I have to point them to the mail list.On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 12:49, Greg Stein wrote:Oh, the data is always in CVS, or maybe a CHANGES file, or somewhere. But if the code gets abandoned, then you could always just drop it on the floor. If it got integrated, then there is certainly a worry about how it got there without a maintainer. Or if it *had* a maintainer, but they left, then why aren't other developers taking responsibility to maintain it or to jettison it.
The situation essentially arises from something I have observed in ant-land. There are several tasks - usually integration with external systems such as perforce - that none of the developers actually use. As a consequence it is difficult for ant-dev to maintain without help.
There was developers who will maintain these parts but other (the lead) ant-dev peeps felt uncomfortable with me nominating these people because they essentially were only developing a small portion of the code - fine grained permissions would have changed their minds but Apache does not have the required infrastructure.
There are plenty of similar cases in ant - to the point where I was semi-regularly applying patches to code that seemed okay but I had no way of testing - after the submitter had complained loudly for long enough :)
Usually I would either okay it with the original developers, notify the original develoeprs or use the submitters as guinea pigs and it seemed to work. Removing the author tags would make it soooooo much harder to do this.
Just, FYI.
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