[arch-releng] anyone wants to take over maintainership of AIF?

Dieter Plaetinck dieter at plaetinck.be
Tue Aug 7 15:36:41 EDT 2012


On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:20:02 +0300
Ionut Biru <ibiru at archlinux.org> wrote:

> On 08/07/2012 07:10 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> > On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:01:43 +0200
> > Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> Am 07.08.2012 17:45, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:
> >>>>> anyway, i wanted to do "transfer ownership" in github, but it complains because
> >>>>> "jdodds/aif already exists"
> >>>>> so i'ld suggest you remove your aif repo on github (of course keep your commits locally so you don't loose anything), then i'll transfer ownership.
> >>>>
> >>>> Done. I'll do my best to take good care of AIF.
> >>>
> >>> i requested the transfer with github. good luck, and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch, i'll try to provide feedback where I can (but you can take it in the direction you want)
> >>
> >> At some point, I'd like to transfer the permissions to the official AIF
> >> repo on archlinux.org. I won't do that until I see some work done
> >> though. Until then, ask an Arch developer to pull your github.
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > the way I saw it, Jeremiah would become the primary maintainer (in his github repo)
> > and we remove http://projects.archlinux.org/aif.git/
> > quite frankly, that repo has done nothing but causing confusion.  I've always preferred github.
> > 
> > now you're basically saying "arch linux developers" are the new aif maintainer. that's fine by me too.
> > I didn't expect any arch devs to be interested in the burden of maintaining aif.
> > 
> > Dieter
> > 
> 
> In my opinion, I see this confusion the primary reason nobody
> contributes to AIF.
> 
> Is AIF an arch project or not?
> 
> If is in arch project, then our users should use our bugtracker to
> report bugs, use arch-releng to send patches.
> 
> If not, then why we are discussion this here?
> 

it was. now it's not anymore. because i was the only dev who worked on it and i resigned.
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