Re: Apologize and to take PyGTK (was: How long shoul d it take to fix a obvious memory leak?)‏

[Ma Xiaojun <damage3025 gmail com>]

On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Federico Mena Quintero
<federico gnome org> wrote:
> I've pushed Owen's patch from bug #660216, as it also contains fixes for
> two other leaks.

There seem to have another duplicate bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599730

> I've also pushed a little update to pygtk.doap to list John Stowers as
> the last active maintainer, per Dieter's mail
> (https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2013-April/msg00085.html).

Thank you for your work!

> If you want, I can guide you through the basic process of making a
> release.  I tried a quick "autogen.sh" of pygtk and it doesn't work, but
> I didn't actually check to see if it is due to me not having some of the
> dependencies for building Gnome 2 stuff, or if pygtk's autofoo is just
> bit-rotten.  I guess that would be your first task - sorry that it's not
> the most fun thing in the world to start with, but a maintainer's life
> is hard :)

I don't know what you mean by "it doesn't work"
As I tried on an Ubuntu 12.04 box.
There some glitches during the execution of autogen.sh, seemingly ignorable.
Some "Could not write XXX" during the build (make), doesn't sound good.
http://paste.ubuntu.com/5681985/
3 out of 103 tests failed during "make clean"

> Also, please read the following:
>
> https://live.gnome.org/MaintainersCorner
> https://live.gnome.org/MaintainersCorner/Releasing
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/pygtk/tree/docs/random/release-checklist
>
> It may all seem overwhelming at first, but it becomes second nature
> after the first two or three release tarballs you make.
>
> Please ask John Stowers if he'd agree to pass maintainership on to you,
> starting with making a release tarball.
>
> The MATE team is interested in keeping the maintainership of Gnome 2
> going, so if you are not in contact with them already, please do so!
> I'm sure they can help you with infrastructural stuff.

Thank you for your information.