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On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 11:46 +1000, Hal Ashburner wrote: > So I've just found (Ken & friends work?) > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/patch-report.cgi?product=gnome-utils&patch-status=none > > Eleven unreviewed patches for the screenshot applet. > Literally half of these are unreviewed after more than 2 years(!) wow, I'm shocked! I wonder who's that lazy maintain... wait. I am. it's interesting to note that 11 unreviewed patches are quite a small number: there are many modules with a higher count of unreviewed patches, and most of them are very well maintained. it's true: the amount of time I can devote to maintaining gnome-utils has gotten smaller, due to work (both ${DAY_JOB} and on other modules in the stack). it's not like gnome-utils is such in a bad state that it requires high levels of maintainership. what it really requires are new modules to replace gnome-system-log and gfloppy with something better written/maintainable and more useful. > This seems to me like pretty good evidence that the maintainers of > "gnome-utils" haven't got the time required to look after the package > properly. I'm sure they don't mean to be so rude to the people who spent > their time fixing bugs but ultimately intentions alone don't get things > done. no, you're wrong: I'm being rude to you. whom I've never heard of. common courtesy would be to mail me personally, as the maintainer, and use the gnome-utils mailing list to push the patches to a broader viewership. > Does it make sense to break gnome-utils up into individual packages for > each app or applet to make the workload for each smaller? I considered this, and at the end of the day there are no maintainers stepping up to do the job on the sub-modules of gnome-utils, except for gnome-search-tools (which is maintained by the awesome Dennis Cranston) and baobab (which is maintained by dynamic duo of Fabio Marzocca and Paolo Borelli). I maintain gnome-dictionary, and try to fix gnome-screenshot here and there. gfloppy and gnome-system-log are completely unmaintained and rely on the kindess of strangers. > How can we get some fresh faces onto this to get things happening again? mail patches to me, and to the gnome-utils-list. take complete responsability for a sub-module by making it always compile. review bugs. apply for a SVN account. stick around. at that point *you'll be added to the maintainership team for gnome-utils*. ciao, Emmanuele. -- Emmanuele Bassi, W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.net B: http://log.emmanuelebassi.net _______________________________________________ gnome-love mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love
