Re: GNOME Panel maintainers

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

hi;

On 8 September 2014 12:33, Alberts Muktupāvels
<alberts muktupavels gmail com> wrote:

> I need some help and/or suggestion on how to take over gnome-panel
> maintaining.

that's not how it works.

I strongly suggest you discuss it with him, calmly, and productively,
in order to amicably solve this issue.

if nothing happens, you can create a clone of the gnome-panel
repository somewhere else, and convince others that your work is the
actual upstream. I'd strongly advise against this solution.

> Philipp does not want that I am taking over maintainership of gnome-panel.
> Problem is that he is not maintaining it and does not want that I do it...

after reading the various threads it seems that he has concerns on the
quality of your contributions; have you tried improving them so that
his concerns will not be relevant any more? it also seems that he
rolled back your commits and instead moved them to topic branches for
ease of review and development.

> He is author of 16 commits. And at least half is not related to any fixes,
> just updating news, version bump, adding himself to maintainers.

release management is a huge part of what "maintainer" means,
alongside code review, and integration of third party contributions.

> GNOME Panel is part of unofficial GNOME Flashback session (metacity,
> gnome-panel, gnome-applets). I am already maintaining gnome-applets,
> metacity. Also I have created new module that is very important part of
> Flashback session.

Flashback is not really sanctioned by GNOME in any way, so the GNOME
community can at most suggest ways of solving this issue amicably.

> Mailing list subscribers is on my side.

development and maintainership are not popularity contests.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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