Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Herold Heiko wrote: > >> Did you know wget is currently in lack of a maintainer ? > > the GNU website says (http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html): > > We are looking for new maintainers for these GNU packages (contact > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if you'd like to volunteer): > > * GNU dumb > * The Hyperbole GNU Emacs Package > * wget (which still has a maintainer, but he would like to step down) > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > so, i didn't think that wget was unmaintained.
The fact is that I haven't done any real maintenance work in years, with some exceptions when I found the time. I've just finished (the civil alternative to) the obligatory army service and might have some time for free software. I plan to go through the backlog of patches posted to the Wget mailing list and at least apply those that I can validate to fix bugs. In the long run, Wget should have a real maintainer who can devote more time to maintaining the code and the community than I could. The best way to candidate is to demonstrate the willingness to work on the code. As for Automake, there are good reasons why Wget is not using it. Makefiles generated by Automake are a horrendous mess that is almost impossible to understand or edit by hand for customization. They are so bad that they make things generated imake/xmkmf pale in comparison. If I have any say in the issue, I'd prefer to keep Wget Automake-free. Of course, that will ultimately be up to the new maintainer(s).
