Re: java-atk-wrapper maintainership

[Alejandro Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com>]

On 10/17/2014 07:45 PM, Alejandro Piñeiro wrote:
> I sent a email to the previous maintainers as Bastien mentioned. After 
> some months without answer, and after mentioning it on one of the 
> weekly meetings of the accessibility team, I added myself as 
> maintainer, without removing Ke Want.
typo: Ke Wang

> It is true that probably it would be good to notify desktop-devel-list 
> too.
>
> Best regards
>
> On 10/17/2014 07:40 PM, Magdalen Berns wrote:
> > 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 
> > <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>
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