Hi! I had the following private email conversation with Matthieu: (I hit the wrong key in gnus: R instead of F ... grrr)
Stefan Reichör wrote: > Matthieu Moy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Hi all ! >> >> As you have noticed, the development of Xtla considerably slowed >> down >> the last few weeks. I took time for other things, and couldn't find >> enough time for Xtla. > > > We all seem to be busy with other stuff. > And - Xtla works very well for my needs already :-) > > >> I still have a few bugs to fix, and I'd like to write more tests >> before the 1.0. I should be able to do that in January. > > > Fine. > > >> I'd like someone else to be the maintainer for the next version. >> This >> doesn't mean I'll stop coding, but I'd like to improve my >> coding/reviewing+merging ratio ;-) > > > I would like to be the maintainer for the next version. > Could you please send me details about the things you have set up > and > the details I need to know for maintainership. The scripts I use to upload the tarball is in scripts/ directory. If you don't have acces to a machine able to run this as a cron job, let me know. Otherwise, there's a chapter describing how to use Xtla for maintainership in the manual (In particular, how to set up your summary line, how to send comments on o patch). Err, actually, I have to finish writting it. The important point is that we have reached a point where not breaking the existing is as important and probably as difficult as adding new features, so, it's really important that someone takes time to review the patches before merging them into the mainline. >> Also, does anyone want to be the official Debian maintainer for >> Xtla? > > > I always wanted to be a Debian maintainer. But I am not sure about > the > way to get sponsorship for a new package. Any comments? http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/index.en.html http://www.debian.org/doc/ The package exists, and I'd like Xtla to remain a "native" package for Debian (I mean, debian/ directory is part of Xtla, and no patch need to be applied to build the package), so there's not much to do technically. -- Matthieu
