On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Ken Benavente <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am writing in regards to taking ownership of the following project. > > http://google-gadget-heatmap.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/program_rack.xml > > The code was written by a former employee of my company, Motorola Mobility. > This gadget is used by several teams in my company and is currently not > working. We cannot make revisions to the project as we cannot get a hold of > the project owner, Shawn Coumbe, since he left the company. Several > employees including his ex-team members and my manager, have tried e-mailing > and calling him in the hope of getting added to the project with editing > rights. We have been trying to contact him for the past month with no > success. > > The current state of this project goes against the spirit of Open > Source since the gadget is currently in a non-functional state coupled with > the fact that the only member of this project who can modify the code is not > reachable. Please consider my request to be given ownership of this project > and let me know if there is any additional information I can provide. > I've added you to the project's owners. Please add at least two or three other owners within your organization; a single-owner project remains a project with a single point of failure. While we're on the subject of the spirit of Open Source: please turn off/do not reënable whatever it was that was making hundreds of robo-commits per day to the project's source control repository. -Nathaniel -- 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en.
