On 14/1/19 14:46, Javier Hernandez wrote: > Hey all, > > first, thanks API for rolling that Accerciser release. It's great to > see it moving again.
I dropped the API nickname, too confusing :P Jokes apart, thanks for replying. > And yeah, sorry for my silence, but I rarely check the GNOME channels > on my email, Juanjo pinged me on Telegram about this thread. > > As I already told to Alex and Samuel off-list a few months ago, I'd be > really happy to get them involved so they can take over the > maintenance of Accerciser. Nowadays, it's pretty hard for me to find > the time to work on it, my spare time is very limited :/ > As I remember from those exchanges, the problem was that they didn't > have a gnome git account and that I couldn't just give them control > over it. I told them that the best way to go was to produce a few > contributions first that we could use during an application process > for a gnome account. In any case, I'm not sure if the process to get > git access has changed in the past 3/4 years or if Samuel already got > a gnome account (or not an account, but contributed patches to other > GNOME projects). So from my side, nothing against having Samuel > maintaining Accerciser as long as we can vouch for him for a gnome > account. Reading here: https://wiki.gnome.org/AccountsTeam/NewAccounts the number of contributions needed are "reasonable amount of patches". I think that adding Samuel ATK and Accerciser patches, he fulfills that requisite. So I think that it would be good if Samuel request an account. > > Cheers, > Javi > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 11:29 AM apinheiro <apinhe...@igalia.com > <mailto:apinhe...@igalia.com>> wrote: > > > On 14/1/19 9:59, Alex ARNAUD wrote: > > Le 12/01/2019 à 11:01, apinheiro a écrit : > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have just rolled a new Accerciser release. It is basically all > >> included on master since the last release. You can see the > details on > >> the announcement I have just send. > > > > Thank you very much Alejandro for this. > > > You are welcome. > > > > > >> Ideally we would need the agreement of current maintainer. But > as far as > >> I understand your previous email, you didn't get any answer > from Javier. > >> Could you confirm that? If we don't get any answer from Javier, the > >> alternative is asking permission at > desktop-devel-l...@gnome.org <mailto:desktop-devel-l...@gnome.org> (or > >> perhaps at the foundation list). > > > > I've contacted Javier to make the Samuel patches about the iPython5 > > support available, he has made the review. > > > > I really respect the Javier work on Accerciser and his > involvement on > > accessibility. > > I've contacted him privately the 2018-10-17 about Accerciser release > > without any answer from him. > > > I personally consider we shouldn't wait more because I shouldn't > have > > to request a new release to a maintainer after years. I assume he no > > longer has the time to work on Accerciser. > > > Ok, then let's reduce my proposed two-weeks to one week. For two > reasons. First, I always tend to be conservative on this things, and > after all this time, and with a fresh release, waiting just one more > week shouldn't be a big deal. Second, because I bet that on > desktop-devel they will ask how much we waited from our last ping. > > > > > > @Alejandro: Does Samuel need to have a sponsor to become a > maintainer ? > > > Well, not sure. This kind of maintainer reassignement without the > previous maintainer available are not usual, so I don't think that > there > are a fixed list of requirements. I would personally propose Samuel as > maintainer, and list all the reasons of why that is a good idea. I > hope > that's to be enough. > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Best regards, > > Alex. > > >
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