On 6/3/14, 3:35 PM, John Zaitseff wrote: > Hi, > > It is somewhat disheartening to see a bug that I've opened in 2011 > still unchanged in status---even though I've provided solutions over > the years. The last time the maintainer, David Martínez Moreno, > made a release was in 2010. > > I still use this package extensively, and, in fact, was the one > responsible for its complete reworking back in 2010---see the > changelog entry for 1.1.5-1. > > I would like to suggest taking over maintainership of the viewvc > package, as suggested in bug #532611 (messages 27 and 28). I am not > (yet!) sure of the procedure to do so, but I will be investigating, > as I aim to become a Debian Maintainer (and then Developer) in the > near future...
Hah, how funny! :-) Hello, John. Funny because I was looking at my
list of
packages (I have been doing updates to a lot of them since January or so) and I
saw that viewvc and memcached are falling behind, so I started working in viewvc
some hours ago and I even put a repo up in Alioth to give people visibility and
also to allow collaboration in case this happens again.
As you can imagine I do not want this to keep happening. I am now going
through your changes but I don't see a lot of new things now as the last time
(for 1.1.5). I'm still cleaning the tarball and the bitrot that accumulated
over time, but I hope to have finished by tomorrow.
You can take a look at
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/viewvc.git;a=summary.
And I totally understand your feeling that it is disheartening. In
fact that
was what led me to adopt viewvc (see the changelog for the 0.9.4+svn20060318-1
version to give you an idea of the package state by that time.) I hope that
having a public repo with the changes will prevent this disconnection from
happening, as you would need to apply for a -guest account in Alioth and you
might change yourself the source, and I (or any other DD) could upload a new
version.
I hope to have solved some of your concerns with the above. Thanks
anyway for
your unconditional support and stubbornness updating this bug. :-)
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