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

[Zhao Qiang <zhaoqiangx gmail com>]

On 2017年11月06日 17:53, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> 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.
Hi  Emmanuele:
Thanks for the explanation.
Yes,  Debian, Fedora, openSUSE and many other Linux release still ship 
Alacarte with the latest release nowdays,
because the user still uses it to edit start menu entries for classic 
desktop, It's so important.
I'm so happy that Gnome community still supports this program because I 
am 1 of these uses.

> Alacarte is definitely unmaintained, though, and pretty much has been
> since the late GNOME 2.x days.
Yes,  I also saw that sadly.  :-(

> If you're volunteering for maintaining Alacarte, you could start by
> checking it still builds,
I'm humbly guessed you may mean me?
From my point, I'm certainly very willing to volunteer to maintain it,  
yes!

> and passes a release check list.
Sorry, I don't mean to offend, Just not clear:
Do you mean I should pass a clarification email to the gnome release 
e-mail 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.