KDevelop Maintainership

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Mon Sep 8 14:15:42 UTC 2008


On 08.09.08 20:24:00, Hamish Rodda wrote:
> On Monday 08 September 2008 20:08:34 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 20.08.08 14:17:14, Matt Rogers wrote:
> > > Obviously, I haven't had a whole lot of time to contribute to KDevelop
> > > lately and so I'm removing myself from the maintainer role and
> > > recommending that the group as a whole take over maintainership of the
> > > various parts of KDevelop, which is basically what's been happening
> > > for the last 6+ months anyways.
> >
> > I've refrained from answering to this thread until now because I
> > couldn't really make up my mind.
> >
> > First of all: Thanks Matt for your previous spare time and effort to
> > keep KDevelop alive and pull a really great KDevelop3.4 release back
> > then. I'd also like to thank you to literally push me into this project,
> > its been a great experience so far and got to meet quite some cool
> > people from all over the world :)
> >
> > Now Aleix already proposed that I could be the new maintainer and I've
> > finally decided that I may be able to actually do that. Unfortunately
> > neither Amilcar nor Alexander (Dymo) have the time to do that job for
> > KDevelop4. I hope Amilcar can keep up with KDevelop3 as I'm going to
> > spend less time on that now that I started to use KDevelop4 even for my
> > every-day-job.
> >
> > So unless somebody has objections, I'm going to apply for
> > release-coordinator for the kdevplatform and kdevelop module's. This
> > basically means that I'm the single-point-of-contact for anything
> > release-related. I don't think that part is going to be a lot different
> > from now as I already do most of the things (see
> > http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Release_Team#Functions). I still want
> > us as a group to do the important decisions, release-schedule,
> > feature-list for a specific release and also to decide on the
> > longer-term-future of KDevelop4. However I reserve the "last word" on
> > any decision that we can't reach a concensus on or at least find a
> > majority for one side of the discussion.
> >
> > So what do you guys think?
> 
> I'm happy with you being maintainer :) I was also considering it, but I'm 
> happy to be focusing on development instead :)

Ooops, I completely left you out of the equation, I only considered Alex
and Amilcar :( Well, then I guess you can take over the shell tasks I
have on my list while I'll do the Maintainer-work ;P

Andreas

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