Am Montag, 12.05.03 um 18:01 Uhr schrieb jfm:
On Saturday, May 10, 2003, at 18:31 Europe/Brussels, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
I fully agree.
On Sunday, May 11, 2003, at 01:15 AM, Max Horn wrote:
Am Samstag, 10.05.03 um 01:03 Uhr schrieb Peter O'Gorman:May I suggest that Jean Francois be added to the project and that he take maintainership of all these packages.I want to keep libxml2, thank you :-)
fair enough, but I am still of the opinion that the docbook/sgml stuff needs a single maintainer or a better policy/standard.... perhaps the suggested standard on http://www.sgmltools.org/docs/sgml-dir-standard/t01.html, or something similar.
I agree with the idea, too - but libxml2's relation to SGML/docbook is actually only a rather minor part of it's overall duties. Hence my wish to keep it, it's also needed for libxslt and many other things that use it to parse XML (it's main purpose, after all).
Anyway, I am grateful, too, that jfm is taking the time to look into this again and again, despite things moving slowly (i.e. it must be frustrating for him sometimes, I bet).
Also OK. But it still would be good to have on maintainer for that stuff, or so. It's nice and good that you try to poke the various maintainers into "doing the right thing", but e.g. for me it's not working too well - I get a biiig email which explains why this and that should be done, and somewhere hidden in there, if I read it carefully, I might find out what I should change in my package to help the overall scheme. I'd much prefer to be told: "Max, in package foo, can you do this and that change." at the start, and then followed by the reasons why I should do it (or vice versa, I don't mind.). Reason: If I know what I am supposed to change, I can then read the explanation, which allows me to understand why the change is needed. Without that, I have to read the full thing and at the same time try to figure out how that relates to me. Usually I simply lack the time to do that, resulting in the change to be implemented very late or not at all.
jfm appears to be one of the few to have shown much interest in it, which is why I suggested he be the maintainer.
Thanks a lot for the honour _ but I'm already lagging too much behind in all my current duties to take on any maintainership : no use to add maintainers who can't keep up to date ... The only thing I can do for the fink project currently is to try occasionally to give a helping hand here and there.
So, next time you want me to change anything docbook related in one of the packages I maintain (provided we find nobody who volunteers to maintain all of those), just email me 1) the exact changes you propose, 2) followed by the usual explanations you give.
Cheers,
Max
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