Re: [Geary] Geary maintainership

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

Hey Adam,

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Adam Dingle <adam medovina org> wrote:
> As some of you know I'm the founder of Yorba, the (now defunct) open 
> source company that developed Geary.  I talked last week with Jim 
> Nelson, who was the lead author of Geary, as well as Charles Lindsay 
> who worked on it too at Yorba.
>
> We would all love to see Geary live on.  (I use Geary every day, and 
> am writing this message in it now!)  Unfortunately none of the 3 of 
> us have time to contribute to development at this point.

This is great news!

From the response over the last week and a bit it also seems like the 
community wants to keep Geary improving given with people willing and 
able to contribute in a bunch of ways.


> If someone wants to volunteer to be the new primary maintainer, we 
> would be interested in passing the baton.  To contribute to the 
> current Geary repository you would need to be a GNOME member.  If 
> that's an issue, we could always move Geary to a repo at GitHub and 
> continue work there.
>
> Anyone who maintains Geary should be committed to reviewing and 
> commiting patches from other contributors as appropriate.  I believe 
> there may be a few patches sitting in GNOME Bugzilla right now.

I'm happy to volunteer to be the new primary maintainer, and start 
wrangling patches, but I'm not currently a GNOME (Foundation?) member, 
so I guess I'd have to apply?

Cheers,
//Mike

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