Re: [SoX-devel] Offering to step up as new SoX maintainer

2024-06-06 Thread Martin Guy
On 6/6/24 14:06, Jan Stary wrote: On Jun 06 13:28:47, martinw...@gmail.com wrote: I now have to add "accessible" which points to savannah.nongnu.org if they will have us. Muhahaha, right, put it in Stallman's hands. Ethical my ass. I too am a little wary of FSF but mostly due to a negative e

Re: [SoX-devel] Offering to step up as new SoX maintainer

2024-06-06 Thread Jan Stary
Please keep the replies on the list. On Jun 06 13:28:47, martinw...@gmail.com wrote: > > > See https://gitlab.com/martinwguy/spettro for a simple example > > So why didn't you set it up at gitlab.org? > I sought the most ethical and OSS-friendly I could find. > I now have to add "accessible" which

Re: [SoX-devel] Offering to step up as new SoX maintainer

2024-06-06 Thread Jan Stary
> So, are you saying that we should move to guthug because ... No, I am not saying that. > Your fork was easier to create than mine because you were already > registered on a site that already carries sox and didn't have to create an > autonomous organization ... > See https://gitlab.com/martinw

Re: [SoX-devel] Offering to step up as new SoX maintainer

2024-06-06 Thread Martin Guy
On 6/5/24 22:55, Jan Stary wrote: On Jun 05 12:29:03, martinw...@gmail.com wrote: I suggest coordinating with distro maintainers, first (most notably Debian). Yes, I'm collecting a list of the 47 different distro maintainers' emails What 47 distributions are that? As listed in repology.org, w

Re: [SoX-devel] Offering to step up as new SoX maintainer

2024-06-05 Thread Jan Stary
On Jun 05 12:29:03, martinw...@gmail.com wrote: > > I suggest coordinating with distro maintainers, first > > (most notably Debian). > Yes, I'm collecting a list of the 47 different distro maintainers' emails > but it's not clear to me what I should say yet, which is important because > one email t

Re: [SoX-devel] Offering to step up as new SoX maintainer

2024-06-05 Thread Martin Guy
I suggest coordinating with distro maintainers, first (most notably Debian). Yes, I'm collecting a list of the 47 different distro maintainers' emails but it's not clear to me what I should say yet, which is important because one email to 47 maintainers and groups costs a huge amnount of valuab

Re: [SoX-devel] Offering to step up as new SoX maintainer

2024-06-04 Thread Rob Sykes via SoX-devel
Hello all, (Mostly retired) SoX admin here.  Just to point out that if it helps, I can add new admins to SoX here at SF. Certainly, in the past, SoX has been a team effort. Just give me a shout if this is needed. Cheers, Rob On Tuesday 4 June 2024 at 13:21:43 CEST, Martin Guy wrote: I

Re: [SoX-devel] Offering to step up as new SoX maintainer

2024-06-04 Thread Eric Wong
Martin Guy wrote: > I am willing to step up as the new maintainer of SoX, to: > - make a new release of SoX, 14.4.3, including fixes to all known bugs(*) > and spelling errors but no more > - after that, open the flood gates to new developments and features towards > a non-backwards-compatible rel

Re: [SoX-devel] Offering to step up as new SoX maintainer

2024-06-04 Thread Jan Stary
> On Jun 04 13:21:16, martinw...@gmail.com wrote: > > I am willing to step up as the new maintainer of SoX to > > - make a new release of SoX, 14.4.3, > > including fixes to all known bugs(*) > > > (*) There are 28 CVEs open against sox-14.4.2, > > not the 18 that Debian has patches for. > > "All

Re: [SoX-devel] Offering to step up as new SoX maintainer

2024-06-04 Thread Jan Stary
On Jun 04 13:21:16, martinw...@gmail.com wrote: > I am willing to step up as the new maintainer of SoX First of all, thank you for offering to do the work. Personaly, I would wait a bit longer to see if the current mainteiners answer to https://marc.info/?l=sox-devel&m=171692594028490&w=2 but I c

[SoX-devel] Offering to step up as new SoX maintainer

2024-06-04 Thread Martin Guy
I am willing to step up as the new maintainer of SoX, to: - make a new release of SoX, 14.4.3, including fixes to all known bugs(*) and spelling errors but no more - after that, open the flood gates to new developments and features towards a non-backwards-compatible release 15.0.0 If this cann