Re: [Vala] Maintaining bindings

[Evan Nemerson <evan coeus-group com>]

On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 19:45 +0100, Jürg Billeter wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 19:00 +0100, Jürg Billeter wrote:
> > as my time available for Vala does not grow the same as the number of
> > bindings we ship, I'm looking for a volunteer to take over maintenance
> > of Vala bindings. While there are already many contributors and a few
> > have permission to directly push changes to master, we so far don't have
> > an official bindings maintainer - besides me as maintainer of Vala as a
> > whole.
> >
> > Being bindings maintainer does not mean that you have to fix all issues
> > that come up yourself, of course. The idea is that there is someone that
> > is familiar enough with Vala bindings to triage bug reports and review
> > and commit patches. This would allow me to focus on the rest of Vala as
> > there is still enough left to work on in the code generator.
> >
> > Is there anyone out there who feels up to task?

I'm willing to do it, if you want.

> Just to be clear, while I'd like to have a single person responsible for
> bindings in general, this doesn't mean that there can't be separate
> maintainers who are responsible for some of the bindings. For example,
> it would make a lot of sense to have separate maintainers for the GTK+
> stack, for GStreamer, for POSIX, and for SDL. For the latter two there
> are already volunteers.
>
> That way the general bindings maintainer needs a lot less time and will
> only need to handle requests for new bindings and bindings that don't
> have separate maintainers.

That would be nice. I can of course take the bindings which originated
with me (off the top of my head, libusb, libusb-1.0, libftdi, and
librsvg-2.0). I also use sqlite3, libsoup-2.4 (though Zeeshan Ali
already volunteered), and cairo a lot, so I could handle them too.

-Evan

> Jürg