Re: The maintainer don't review my poor patch, Who can help me?

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On 6 November 2017 at 08:49, Zhao Qiang <zhaoqiangx gmail com> wrote:
> On 2017年11月06日 16:09, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 12:33 PM, Zhao Qiang <zhaoqiangx gmail com> wrote:
> > > Dear mentors:
> > >
> > > Hi, I have submitted a little patch for application alacarte in
> > >
> > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766900.
> > >
> > > but for a long time waiting, the maintainer has no response. Then Whom
> > > else can I ask for review or accept the modification?
> > >
> > > So many thanks for your help!
> > I think that project is unmaintained and unused in the current GNOME 3
> > stack, so you probably won't get any response. We should probably do
> > something that reflects the unused status of projects I think...
> >
> > What are you using it for?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nirbheek
>
> Hi Nirbheek:
>
> In my humble opinion, It is still be in used.

A desktop file editor may still be useful, so it is not "deprecated" per se.

Alacarte is definitely unmaintained, though, and pretty much has been
since the late GNOME 2.x days.

If you're volunteering for maintaining Alacarte, you could start by
checking it still builds, and passes a release check list.

> We can take a look at this
> page:
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/
> alacart is in the 1st position of desktop group,  while all the unused
> application is in
> the deprecated group.

The groups are sorted alphabetically, so "alacarte" comes first. :-)

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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