Release 1.12
Scott Wheeler
scott at taglib.org
Mon Nov 30 03:01:47 GMT 2020
> On 29 Nov 2020, at 23:03, Kevin André <hyperquantum at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So how is TagLib going to get a new maintainer? Is there some kind of
> formal process for that?
> I assume you'd want to pick someone capable and willing and who is
> already a regular contributor. For an important project like TagLib it
> is probably a good idea to have at least two maintainers, to avoid
> that person being a single point of failure.
I’m afraid that’s somewhat fanciful. TagLib has only had about 10 significant contributors (with more than ~10 commits) with the three of us that were maintainers having written about 75% of the code. That leaves about 7 people in the pool to draw from.
>> Nothing in there is rocket science, but like I said, it is a few days of work. If you’re interested in jumping in and starting to handle some of that stuff, great. :-)
>
> Wouldn't he need access to the repository first?
Yes, which is easily do-able (particularly in Urs case since he’s had quite a few accepted patches in the past).
-Scott
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