Re: Giving up maintenership of my modules

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2014-09-15 at 13:50 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
>         Thanks for announcing because many developers end up AWOL not
>         realizing
>         and overcommitting while time is precious.
>         
>         Wondering if Engagement / Outreach (CCed) has general thoughts
>         on
>         communicating "modules in need of active maintainership".
>         
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> It is possible, we could reach out through social media and maybe
> reddit/r/gnome or /r/linux.  See if people might be interested in
> taking up maintainership.  If you have prospects that you want to tap,
> that would be the best though.  It's really inspiring and wonderful to
> be recognized and ask to take over a module.

I seriously doubt we'll find a new *maintainer* that way. A maintainer
needs to be somebody who has a track record of contributions. For
example, you might well consider Ross Lagerwall a maintainer of gvfs, or
Phillip Wood one for sound-juicer.

If you manage to find new developers for those projects, maybe in time
they'll rise to become great maintainers...

Cheers