Re: java-atk-wrapper maintainership

[Magdalen Berns <m berns thismagpie com>]

Hi Bastien,

Thanks for clarifying. This seems a bit inconsistent with my experience so I guess that is why I have gotten confused. Exactly when did Alejandro email this list asking to be maintainer? I ask because this module got abandoned in 2011 and I was enquiring about this directly with the accessibility team well before anyone was maintaining this module and heard nothing about it until after the fact.[1,2]

Magdalen

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724554

[2] https://git.gnome.org/browse/java-atk-wrapper/commit/?id=3645e6dca48c461afa6d4ffa61a710c85b7bcf0c

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:

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