Looking at the "What should I do if I wish to take over a project that appears abandoned by its owners?" from our FAQ:
- The project has been inactive for >6 months (good for you) - You've made an effort in good faith to contact the author (good for you) - The project on Google Code could conceivably be seen as name-squatting, since it's using the same project name to host a fork (good for you) - There is source code, and your plan appears to be to wipe it and replace it with the mainline (bad for you) - There doesn't seem to be terribly much original source code. It looks like a big burst of initial motivation to change things, which rapidly petered out (good for you) - One of the owners is still active on Google Code in other projects, as of very recently (bad for you) To me, your request is legitimate, and my gut feeling is that the owner of the project won't mind handing the name over to you. However, since there is original source code in the project, I'm reluctant to just blow it up and hand it over to you without a word from the current owner. Here's what I propose: I'll email the two current owners, notify them that according to our "recycling" policy, I'll be handing over the project to you, and give them a chance to protest to me and/or respond to your issue on the issue tracker. I'll wait 10 days (ie. until Saturday 17th, making it a total of 16 days since your initial request to them), and if there is no sign of life at all by then, I'll transfer ownership of the project to you. How does that sound? - Dave On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 13:09, Olaf van der Spek <olafvds...@gmail.com>wrote: > A project has already taken the name XBT to host a XBT port. However, > this project isn't active and I'd like to have this name for the > original project. It's currently hosted at SF: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbtt/ > > I've already posted an issue, but no response yet from the project > members. > > http://code.google.com/p/xbt/issues/detail?id=1#c0 > > Is there a way to get this name? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-code-host...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-code-hosting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-code-hosting%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en. > > -- Google Switzerland GmbH Brandschenkestrasse 110, Zurich, Switzerland 8002 Zurich Identifikationsnummer: CH-020.4.028.116-1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to google-code-host...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-code-hosting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en.
