On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 03:23:49PM +0200, Erik Schanze wrote: > John Hedges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> John Hedges: > > I'd like to adopt splay, a command line mp3 player. I've updated the > > bug > > report (#246971) to reflect ITA but have a couple of questions > > before > > uploading. > > > > - I'm not sure about the upstream. I've mailed the current upstream > > maintainer but have not had a reply. How much of a problem is it > > if > > there is no longer an upstream for this package? > > > What's the problem of many orphaned packages, so the suggestion of e. > g. New > Maintainer Guide to start the DD career with an orphaned package is > sometimes > suboptimal. Because if there is no active upstream you have to do > needed work > (bugfixing, improving) by yourself. > > If you are able to do this by yourself, this package suits. If you are > not a > programmer, a package with an active upstream to delegate work on > source code > would be better.
I have done a fair bit of programming and I am not too phased by the code despite being an mpeg codec newbie. My main concern is what to do to implement additional functionality. Could I continue to call the package splay if the functionality differs considerably from the upstream - or must I create a new project (and upstream) based on splay before adding features? Cheers John
