On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Drew Northup wrote: > I'd be happy to take over, and Kevin knows that. The REAL problem is > that I can't do the work without CVS write access and write access to > the ftp/http site. I am doing all of the "running of plex86" that I can > right now--and I am sorry that you aren't satisfied. I'd be doind more > work on plex86 if I had some way of getting things (like my > international keyboard support patch) into CVS then at least they would > work. If you'd like to be helpful, read the sources and suggest some > changes yourself--I keep almost everything sent to this list and can > refresh the CVS if need be at a later date.
Maybe I'm being naive, and I certainly do not mean to put Kevin off with the following, but if CVS access is the only issue, then a fork is a sensible short term measure, until Kevin (or someone else with CVS access etc) comes back into the scene. That is, after all, one of the points of open source development - one does not have to wait until the originator decides there's enough pressure to commit changes. Kevin almost certainly has pressing concerns in his life - I would from what I know of his circumstances - but forking a new repository and "doing an egcs" is not always a destructive mechanism, unlike what the press makes out with the Linux core development, IMHO. Or maybe you think this is inappropriate? Arnim.
