KDevelop maintainership

Milian Wolff mail at milianw.de
Mon Jul 5 16:35:48 UTC 2010


Aleix Pol, 05.07.2010:
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> > On 05.07.10 15:00:58, Alexander Dymo wrote:
> > > Hey,
> > > I'd like to bring this question to our attention one more time.
> > > Andreas stepped down quite a long time ago and nobody stepped up and
> > > we definitely need a maintainer (not just release coordinator, history
> > > shows we as a team do benefit from having a strong and involved
> > > maintainer).
> > > 
> > > So, I'd like to propose this - like in KDevelop3 times, elect two
> > 
> > maintainers:
> > > * one person to do release management (boring stuff: release team
> > > participation, packaging, bug management, writing stories, dot
> > > articles, etc, etc.)
> > > * another person to watch after technical things (fun stuff: watch
> > > after code, api, architecture, do reviews, have a say when there's no
> > > consensus during technical discussions)
> > > 
> > > Amilcar and I managed to make 5 releases this way (from 3.1 to 3.5)
> > > and I think that went quite well.
> > > 
> > > What would you guys to say about electing:
> > > * Milian for release coordinator
> > > * Andreas for technical maintainer
> > 
> > I'm sorry to say so, but I'm not up for that. I'm currently only using
> > KDevelop when hacking on its source code, which means less than 5 hours a
> > week and I don't think I should be judging on a codebase that I don't use
> > myself.
> > 
> > I'm still playing a bit with the core/ui split as I'm interested in that,
> > but beyond that I don't have any plans to work on any kdevelop code in
> > the short to mid term. (I'd love to implement a couple of features, but
> > as I don't really use kdevelop myself I know I wouldn't ever be
> > maintaining them properly)
> > 
> > Andreas
> > 
> > --
> > You will have domestic happiness and faithful friends.
> > 
> > --
> > KDevelop-devel mailing list
> > KDevelop-devel at kdevelop.org
> > https://barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de/mailman/listinfo/kdevelop-devel
> 
> Given that Andreas is not really up for it, I'd like to help KDevelop with
> the remaining co-maintainership. I've been involved with the team for quite
> some time I think it could work if you are up for it.
> During the next months I plan to spend quite a lot of time with KDevelop so
> it makes sense to me, and I hope for you also.

++

I'll help you with the release management and writing articles and stuff, also 
assuming I'm there to stay :)

Bye
-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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