Happy new year to all those who have just entered 2006! Let's have another year full of rocking GNOME releases! Now, in order for us to keep rocking more and more, I hereby ask everybody maintaining modules on cvs.gnome.org a little favour, which should take very little time from your hacking: please, verify if each of your modules has a MAINTAINERS file and, if not, create one. If there is one, verify if it is up-to-date. The reason is quite simple. Usually, the first thing people willing to contact the person (or people) responsible for a certain module will do is to check the MAINTAINERS file. Generally, this is also the only reliable way to obtain this information, and trying to get it through other means results in guesses and wasted time. One clear example is the one which made me write this message: if you want to vouch for one of your contributors so they get a gnome.org account with CVS write access, the person processing the request will have to check if it is the module maintainer who is advocating that application, and it is much more difficult to do that (if at all possible) without a MAINTAINERS file. Also, as you probably know, e-mail addresses listed on that file automatically get messages targeted at module-maint gnome org, which makes communication a lot easier. The next step will be to file bugs for all CVS modules which use bugzilla asking for the creation of this file, and will happen right after the release of GNOME 2.14.1, scheduled for April 12th, to give you some time to get your modules fixed without messing up with your hacking schedule and hence not interfere with our next release. If you have any doubts about anything mentioned above, support gnome org is available to solve them. Thanks, -- gpastore gnome org: Guilherme de S. Pastore http://www.gnome.org/ * http://gnome-br.sf.net/
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