On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:30:49 +0100, Laszlo Boszormenyi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Philip, > > I've sent you a mail a week ago that I would like to take over pyjamas. > As I see, you are active but I still didn't got your answer.
So, you know I'm not MIA, and yet you only send one mail to me directly before taking a package from me -- did you try any other channels of communication? I didn't notice you pinging me on IRC, for instance. > You can find the new package version on my site: > http://www.routers.hu/gcs/pyjamas_0.7-1.dsc > > Please respond if you are intend to maintain this package or otherwise I > will upload my version after one more week. It seems that CRM-114 didn't like your mails for some reason, so they've been sitting in my "probably spam" folder, which I only clear out about once a month. Of course, if you'd actually bothered to contact Luke Leighton (the upstream) about this, he'd probably have mentioned it to me when I was round at his home having a cup of tea recently. The reason that I'd not upgraded the package was that Luke told me not to -- clearly I should have mentioned that in the bug, so sorry about that. It seems that pyjamas-desktop is badly broken in 0.7, and Luke's intent was to get 0.8 out of the door, but that doing so requires a couple of weeks testing that he's not had time for. Admittedly, he's been saying that for a while, but uploading a package of a version that the upstream would rather not have packaged is not very helpful. Personally, I think that going from first contact to takeover in under a month is a little precipitate. Particularly since there is no urgency to this, since we're in the middle of a freeze. Given that Luke and I are friends, who meet reasonably often, it seems unlikely that you're going to do a better job of maintaining the package than I would -- I'd be less worried about that if you'd contacted Luke before acting, but the fact that you didn't do that bodes badly for the ongoing upstream relationship. That being the case -- unless you have a particularly persuasive reason for being the maintainer, I'll have the package back. BTW do you have your diff in git (or other VCS) somewhere? Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND
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