[Kde-games-devel] KsirK maintainership

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimarts, 5 de febrer de 2013, a les 00:01:38, Nemanja Hirsl va escriure:
> I'm sorry to hear this, but also, even I'm still not a parent, I understand
> that you have more important things to handle. Wish you all the luck and
> all the best in your future endeavors.
> 
> I must admit I'm little surprised and honored by this proposal to take over
> maintainership of KsirK. I'm glad you have confidence in me and I'm
> thankful for good words from both you and Ian. That's all good but it is
> only one side of the medal. The other is that I also have regular job not
> related to KDE, a lot of other duties and not much time I can dedicate to
> kde-games. Until now, I've had an idea to spend some time discovering
> kde-games, try to fix "hardest" bugs and in that way contribute to kde.
> Time spent was mostly weekends, and a couple of days off the work. Because
> of that I'm not sure if I can fulfill all demands for a maintainer. Also,
> I'm quite new to git and would need some help how to start... 

We are always here to help :-)

> I even don't
> know what are responsibilities and duties of a maintainer :), but If it is
> enough to actively participate on mailing list regarding ksirk, handling
> bugzilla and tackling some bugs, 1 or 2 in one month timeframe (maybe less
> sometimes), then, yes, I'll gladly accept this role. 

That's exactly it.

> If not, maybe someone
> who has more time and experience in this field could take over?

I don't think we have much people with KSirk experience around. We have people 
with more general programming experience, but you seem to have worked a bit 
with KSirk so that's good.

Of course if you feel unsure about a patch you can always ask and we'll try to 
help the best we can :-)

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Thanks,
> Nemanja
> 
> On Sunday, February 03, 2013 07:51:43 AM Ian Wadham wrote:
> > On 03/02/2013, at 1:29 AM, Kleag wrote:
> > > I created KsirK 18 years ago. While I spent a lot of time on it during
> > > several years, I must now admit that I have not worked seriously on it
> > > since a very long time, probably a few years.
> > > 
> > > Nemanja has closed several bugs in the last months but there is still
> > > several others opened and I must confess to myself that I will probably
> > > not work on them in the foreseeable future (maybe when my last
> > > daughter, one year old, will leave our home ?).
> > 
> > I am sorry to hear this, Kleag, but I understand how it is with young
> > children. You will have only a few years after your daughter leaves home
> > before the grandkids start arriving … :-)  My wife and I get grandparent
> > duty 2 or 3 days a week, but it is fun and at least nowadays you can hand
> > kids a touchscreen when you get tired …
> > 
> > Anyway, all the best for the future Kleag!  And I hope Nemanja will take
> > over. He really has a great grasp of how to handle subtle time-dependent
> > bugs.
> > 
> > All the best, Ian W.
> > 
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