I forgot to CC arch-projects, but this might be interesting for all devtools contributors. Given that Pierre seems to be kind of swamped the last couple of weeks, I created a convenience branch where I merge all patches that I consider to be ready for master (just to simplify Pierre's job and hopefully speed things up a bit). Check my original mail to Pierre for details: ----- Forwarded message from Lukas Fleischer <archlinux@cryptocrack.de> ----- Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 22:00:59 +0200 From: Lukas Fleischer <archlinux@cryptocrack.de> To: Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> Subject: Re: Pending devtools patches User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 09:27:02PM +0200, Lukas Fleischer wrote:

Hi, Pierre!

Once again... Time for the occasional poke :)

Note that there have been another dozen of patches to devtools that need to be reviewed and commented on or pushed. I already glanced at Jan's (heftig's) patches on GitHub [1], discussed his patch set on #archlinux-tu and he did some polishing. They basically look fine to me now.

Thomas (td123) added two patches to a Flyspray ticket [2] that I reviewed as well.

I also have about 10 patches in my wip-wip branch that I didn't even submit to arch-projects yet since they're based on my pending patches that haven't been pushed yet and I want to avoid repeated rebasing and resubmission.

If you need someone to help out, I mentioned on #archlinux-tu a couple of times that I can setup a "for-pierre" convenience branch on my working repository, will review patches on arch-projects, as well as the bug tracker and merge everything I consider as suitable for mainline inclusion. That way, you wouldn't have to review stuff on all the different places.

I just created such a branch that contains all patches from arch-projects [1]. I had to rebase almost all of them to apply (due to my "Support non-standard install locations" patch changing the naming scheme).

I'd even gladly apply as a new devtools maintainer if you feel like you don't have enough time to keep maintaining it. Just to make clear that we do not lack volunteers to step in. I neither want to be offensive nor pushy here but an inactive maintainer sadly slows down development :/

Anyway, hope to hear from you soon!

Cheers, Lukas

[1] https://github.com/heftig/devtools/commits/master [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/26265

Cheers! [1] http://git.cryptocrack.de/devtools.git/log/?h=for-pierre ----- End forwarded message -----