Hello,
I think you'll all agree with the fact that GNOME is a big and nice project that needs a bit more work of maintainership. For the moment the gnome packages are mainly maintained by people working alone. The result is not too bad, but some of us think we could do much better with more organisation. So some maintainers have decided to create a GNOME Maintenance team. These people already stated their interest in participating to such a team: * Sebastien Bacher * Ross Burton * Michel D�nzer * Andrew Lau * Sven Luther * Jordi Mallach * Josselin Mouette * Akira Tagoh * Jeff Waugh The team goal is to help to maintain all GNOME packages and to keep a look on "extra" one (apps not included in the GNOME project but using GNOME), giving a hand if necessary. So that there is no unnecessary maintainer change, we only need to add the team as an uploader for packages concerned. We're also opening a project on alioth for the team, so we'll have space to store the project on CVS/SVN, a web page, a place to put some doc reference (like the GNOME Packaging Policy written by ross), etc ... So if you think this team is a good idea and want to take part, please let me know it now by sending a mail with your name and/or if you have some packages concerned (ie: some package for which you want to have the team as co-maintainer). A first list (probably not complete) of packages which can be concerned is attached to the mail. Thank you for reading this mail. I'm sure most of you want the best for GNOME in Debian and I hope you'll agree with the team idea. Cheers, Sebastien Bacher list by maintainers, gnome modules/(extra modules): Christian Marillat (18/1): * control-center * gnome-applets * gnome-desktop * gnome-libs * gnome-panel * gnome-session * gnome-terminal * gnome-themes * libglade2 * libgnome * libgnomecanvas * libgnomeui * libgnomeprint * libgnomeprintui * libwnck (* meta-gnome2) * scrollkeeper * vte * yelp Takuo KITAME (12/1): * bonobo (* evolution) * eel * gconf * gconf-editor * gnome-icon-theme * gnome-mime-data * gnome-vfs * intltool * libbonoboui * libgtkhtml2 * librsvg * nautilus Akira TAGOH (9): * at-spi * atk1.0 * gail * glib2.0 * gok * gtk+2.0 * libgail-gnome * metacity * pango1.0 Sebastien Bacher (5/3): * file-roller (* fontilus) * gcalctool (* gdesklets) * gnome-system-monitor * gucharmap * libgtop2 (* totem) Sebastian Rittau (3): * orbit2 * gtk-doc * libidl Colin Walters (3): * gnome-mag * gnome-speech * startup-notification Ross Burton (2/1): (* gossip) * nautilus-cd-burner * zenity J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) (1/1): * pkgconfig (* gnumeric) Joe Drew (2/1): * gedit * gnome-utils * gnome-vfs-extras2 Andrew Lau (1/1): * gtksourceview (* balsa) David I. Lehn (2): * gstreamer * gst-plugins Josselin Mouette (0/2): (* gnome-themes-extra) (* gdm-themes) Ryan Murray (2): * esound * gdm Davide Puricelli (evo) (2): * eog * gnome-media Masayuki Hatta: (/(abiword)) Ed Boraas: (gtk-engines) Rob Bradford: (/(eroaster)) Devin Carraway: (acme) Fredrik Hallenberg: (libxml2) Christian Hammers: (gnome-gv) Mark Howard: (/(galeon)) Joerg Jaspert: (epiphany) Daniel Kobras: (audiofile) Noel Koethe: (gnome-games) David LaBissonier: (bug-buddy) Mario Lang: (gnopernicus) S�ren Boll Overgaard: (/(pan)) Robert McQueen: (/(gaim)) Karl Ramm: (/(xscreensaver)) Ardo van Rangelrooij: (libxslt) Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo: (gnomemeeting) James A. Treacy: (/(gnucash)) Emil Soleyman-Zomalan: (nautilus-media) Filip Van Raemdonck: (gpdf)
