Re: Reminder: wget has no maintainer
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Tony Lewis wrote: Daniel Stenberg wrote: The GNU project is looking for a new maintainer for wget, as the current one wishes to step down. I think that means we need someone who: 1) is proficient in C 2) knows Internet protocols 3) is willing to learn the intricacies of wget 4) has the time to go through months' worth of email and patches 5) expects to have time to continue to maintain wget Anyone here think they fit that bill? (Feel free to add to my suggestions about what kind of person we need.) 2a) All of them. :) (Is familiar with application-level network protocols, web standards and their usage, correct or otherwise . For an example see the HTML comments thread. Knows (X)HTML and familiar with other web media formats.) 6) Will move Wget sources to the savannah(.gnu.org) 7) Has the patience to work with the Wget source which likely burnt out the previous maintainers. smiley 7) Understands the need to redesign Wget, someday.. soon smiley 8) Supports free software! whee! it seems like there's a lot of hackers, bug-reporters, users and supporters who could collectively accomplish a lot of the work, we really just need an all-knowing philosopher-queen or king to not necessarily do a whole lot of work, but just have an active CVS account. so as technically threatening as the Wget maintainer application looks, we could currently most benefit from a trusted soul. /a
Re: Reminder: wget has no maintainer
Daniel Stenberg wrote: The GNU project is looking for a new maintainer for wget, as the current one wishes to step down. I think that means we need someone who: 1) is proficient in C 2) knows Internet protocols 3) is willing to learn the intricacies of wget 4) has the time to go through months' worth of email and patches 5) expects to have time to continue to maintain wget Anyone here think they fit that bill? (Feel free to add to my suggestions about what kind of person we need.) Tony
Re: Reminder: wget has no maintainer
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Aaron S. Hawley wrote: 1) is proficient in C That is next to common knowledge. 2) knows Internet protocols THe HTTP 1.0 and FTP RFC959 that wget supports today are pretty basic and no-frills. Besides, there are many proof-readers in the audience that help identifying flaws if any should occur. 3) is willing to learn the intricacies of wget Judging from the shear amount of patches that fly around, many people have walked down that road already. 4) has the time to go through months' worth of email and patches Nah, ignore them and look forward. If people really care they'll resubmit them or others will. Setting up a proper bug tracker for wget could be a separate task for someone to assist the new maintainer with... 5) expects to have time to continue to maintain wget Yes. A maintainer that can't maintain wouldn't be any improvement from what the situation is now. We know Hrvoje is there, somewhere, only lacking the opportunity to maintain wget. 2a) All of them. :) (Is familiar with application-level network protocols, web standards and their usage, correct or otherwise . For an example see the HTML comments thread. Knows (X)HTML and familiar with other web media formats.) Yeah, but there's no reason all that knowledge would have to be possesed by one single do-it-all magician. 6) Will move Wget sources to the savannah(.gnu.org) Whatever, as long as there are more than one person with CVS write access... it seems like there's a lot of hackers, bug-reporters, users and supporters who could collectively accomplish a lot of the work, we really just need an all-knowing philosopher-queen or king to not necessarily do a whole lot of work, but just have an active CVS account. so as technically threatening as the Wget maintainer application looks, we could currently most benefit from a trusted soul. Indeed. Or make that trusted souls, as I believe it would be better to have more than one. -- -=- Daniel Stenberg -=- http://daniel.haxx.se -=- ech`echo xiun|tr nu oc|sed 'sx\([sx]\)\([xoi]\)xo un\2\1 is xg'`ol
Reminder: wget has no maintainer
Hi friends, I just thought that I should remind everyone in the audience: The GNU project is looking for a new maintainer for wget, as the current one wishes to step down. This is mentioned here: http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html And it says that volounteers should contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]. That said, I personally have nothing to do with the GNU project or with wget, I'm just your average Joe hanging out here with the rest. -- Daniel Stenberg - http://daniel.haxx.se - +46-705-44 31 77 ech`echo xiun|tr nu oc|sed 'sx\([sx]\)\([xoi]\)xo un\2\1 is xg'`ol
