Thomas Köhler wrote:
Hi Thilo,
<snip>
BTW, some files might not be changed because there is not much need.
I last changed uil.vim and prolog.vim in 2009 to support some new
feature available in vim (and uil.vim yesterday due to
Dominique's patch for @Spell support), and before that, I think I
changed them somewhen back in 2004 or so (I would have to check
my mail archive, as I don't have the syntax files in version
control yet).
Some statistics: I've contacted the maintainers of 15 syntax files
this weekend to add spelling checker support. The stats so far are:
- 4 responses received from maintainers of awk, forth, ocaml, scheme (thanks!);
- 6 emails without response so far (but it's fair to wait a bit more);
That should now at least be 5:5 :-)
It's always a good idea to give people a few days time to reply,
especially for their private email which they might not read for
a few days. When I am on vacation, it is possible that I don't
read my mail for two or three weeks - because my vacation tends
to be a no-internet-for-a-while time :)
Personal i gave people now more than 6 months to respond. Without success!
How long should we wait until we expect someone to be MIA?
I'd say 6 months is too long, but please try several times, as
your first mail might have ended up in some spam filter. But if
you don't get a response after two or three months, the runtime
file should be considered orphaned IMHO. I think this point
should be discussed.
<snip>
Perhaps there could be an automated annual email such as:
-------------------------------
Hello!
Thank you for your maintaining of <runtimefile.vim>. The Vim community
greatly appreciates your work.
This is an automated annual request: are you still willing to be a
maintainer?
Regards,
The Vim Community
-------------------------------
Actually, I'd prefer it if I only received one such emails for all the
runtime files I maintain, so idealy that <runtimefile.vim> would be
changed to
<runtimefile.vim>
<runtimefile.vim>
...
so I only needed to reply once.
Regards,
Chip Campbell
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