Re: GnomeVFS maintainership change

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 7 Dec 2002, Seth Nickell wrote:

> It is clear that (particularly during this quarter) I have not had
> adequate time to maintain GnomeVFS, even so much as fixing critical bugs
> and doing releases. Perhaps post-graduation I will have some time to
> spend on GnomeVFS, but for now I'm choosing to spend the limited time I
> can afford for GNOME on more directly usability-related issues.
> 
> While there are many new features we can all imagine for GnomeVFS, and
> many quirks left to be worked out, I feel like GnomeVFS works pretty
> well as it is, and it wouldn't be the end of the world if it didn't
> acquire any new features. More important is that its existing feature
> set (which spans all the basic stuff filesystems should be able to do at
> this point, with the possible exception of ACLs and extended metadata?)
> can be relied upon by existing applications. 
> 
> Consequently I have selected Alex Larsson (alexl redhat com) to replace
> me as a GnomeVFS maintainer. Alex is more than just a good hacker, he is
> also one of the people most impacted by GnomeVFS changes by way of
> Nautilus. Thus I feel confident that he will maintain a good focus on
> making sure GnomeVFS keeps a stable API and a good feature set for
> practical use, though he does not expect to have time for a lot of new
> feature development. 

Thank you Seth for your long work on GnomeVFS, and best luck on your 
school work and usability work. I hope you'll come back to work on 
GnomeVFS when time allows it.  

My vision of GnomeVFS is as a small I/O wrapper library that allows 
applications to do file I/O in a way much like they are used to, but that 
can be seamlessly extended to new domains as the need arises in the Gnome 
project.

I will do my best to keep GnomeVFS a good stable core that allows Nautilus 
to be the best file manager it can be. At the same time I will try to keep 
it a small dependency-free core library that all Gnome applications can 
use without feeling like they are bloating their code or have to follow an 
unstable complicated API. 

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