indefinite leave of absence (looking for a new KDE maintainer)
Hi, At the end of August I'll be taking an indefinite leave of absence from CRUX development, due to the ever increasing amount of time needed to do schoolwork, and the beginning of my hardest semester yet. At this time I'll be ceasing maintenance of my httpup repository (http://members.shaw.ca/nick.steeves/ports); although it will no longer be accessible via httpup, I will transition to hosting a tarball of its ports. Ideally I'd like to find someone to maintain two httpup repositories: kde.httpup (kdelibs, kdebase, kdeartwork, etc.), and kde-extra.httpup (with all of the KDE stuff from my personal repository). It seems reasonable to presume that should this person maintain them well, then he or she could possibly join CRUX as the KDE maintainer, due to the experience gained while maintaining the httpup repositories. Any volunteers? Last night I built KDE-3.5.4, but won't have the time to test it thoroughly, so haven't committed it to SVN, but have instead put it in my personal repository. If I hear that it works great, without issues, for a few people then I'll certainly check it in...but I'm transitioning out of my CRUX responsibilities, so don't want to commit to supporting a new release just yet. As for the rest of my ports: I'll be transferring them to Younès, although, as always, I'm sure duplicates may occur. ;-) On a more serious note, it seems worth duplicating a really nice port, if only to maintain it as part of contrib (digikam, for example...) Who knows, perhaps someone with a digital camera will want to make digikam part of opt? I don't own a digital camera, so only use it as a content manager for photos from friends, or the occasional photo CD, which is why I can't justify maintaining it as part of opt. Well anyways, it's been fun, educational, and an overall good experience working on CRUX for the past two years. I hope to get an email or two back from hopeful KDE advocates. Cheers, Nick
El Martes, 15 de Agosto de 2006 7:20 AM, Nick Steeves escribió:
Hi,
At the end of August I'll be taking an indefinite leave of absence from CRUX development, due to the ever increasing amount of time needed to do schoolwork, and the beginning of my hardest semester yet. At this time I'll be ceasing maintenance of my httpup repository (http://members.shaw.ca/nick.steeves/ports); although it will no longer be accessible via httpup, I will transition to hosting a tarball of its ports.
Ideally I'd like to find someone to maintain two httpup repositories: kde.httpup (kdelibs, kdebase, kdeartwork, etc.), and kde-extra.httpup (with all of the KDE stuff from my personal repository). It seems reasonable to presume that should this person maintain them well, then he or she could possibly join CRUX as the KDE maintainer, due to the experience gained while maintaining the httpup repositories. Any volunteers?
I volunteer to maintain the kde repositories. I've had experience building KDE on Solaris and Linux since the 1.x days. I'll do my best to keep these ports updated. On the other hand, I'm not sure about all the KDE stuff you have there. I'll have to check one by one and see what is usefull to me, as I don't think I could maintain a port of a piece of software I don't use.
Last night I built KDE-3.5.4, but won't have the time to test it thoroughly, so haven't committed it to SVN, but have instead put it in my personal repository. If I hear that it works great, without issues, for a few people then I'll certainly check it in...but I'm transitioning out of my CRUX responsibilities, so don't want to commit to supporting a new release just yet.
I've been using 3.5.4 for a week already and haven't found any problems. Anyway, I can commit it when its thoroughly tested if you give me the SVN access.
As for the rest of my ports: I'll be transferring them to Younès, although, as always, I'm sure duplicates may occur. ;-) On a more serious note, it seems worth duplicating a really nice port, if only to maintain it as part of contrib (digikam, for example...) Who knows, perhaps someone with a digital camera will want to make digikam part of opt? I don't own a digital camera, so only use it as a content manager for photos from friends, or the occasional photo CD, which is why I can't justify maintaining it as part of opt.
Well anyways, it's been fun, educational, and an overall good experience working on CRUX for the past two years. I hope to get an email or two back from hopeful KDE advocates.
I want to speak in the name of the whole crux community to thank you for all your hard work and time maintaining your repositories. Regards, -- Alan Mizrahi
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