On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 3:12 PM apinheiro <apinhe...@igalia.com> wrote:
> > 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. > I never got the API deprecation warning!! xD > > 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. > > > That sounds great to me. Samuel, count on me for the application process. Cheers, Javi > > Cheers, > Javi > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 11:29 AM apinheiro <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 (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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