Re: java-atk-wrapper maintainership

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2014-10-17 at 17:54 +0100, Magdalen Berns wrote:
>         On 2014-10-17 16:37, Magdalen Berns <m berns thismagpie com>
>         wrote:
>                 I would like to support the new java wrapper
>                 maintainer, Alejandro with the
>                 task of maintaining java-atk-wrapper since the whole
>                 module needs updating
>                 having been abandoned back in 2011 until recently when
>                 I submitted a patch
>                 to allow it to be built successfully on the latest
>                 version of GNOME[1,2]. I
>                 also updated the doap to reflect reality and conform
>                 to the latest doap
>                 standard used by GNOME[3]
>         
>         As Alejandro is the maintainer, you should ask him, rather
>         than desktop-devel-list, if you want to become a maintainer.
>
>
> I have asked him, lots of times both before and after he added himself
> as maintainer for the module.[1] I haven't had any objections from
> Alejandro Emailing this list is the correct procedure to request
> maintainership of a module. 

It's not. The correct procedure is to ask the current maintainer, and
possibly email this list to announce the new maintainership. You
certainly don't need to ask us. If Alejandro is OK with it, he can set
you up with the right bugzilla rights, and you're good to go.

Cheers