On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 09:54:46AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello Daniel, > > I have been (indirectly) contacted by upstream developers of wxWindows who > are also unsatisfied by the lack of action of Ron. It's clear that Ron and > upstream are not in good terms (Ron being a former upstream developer). > > In those conditions I wonder if Ron is really a good maintainer for this > package. And from what I saw in the BTS, he deliberatly blocks any work on > wx 2.8 until an hypothetic transition plan. Though I've not seen any > serious work on a "transition plan" from himself. > > [...]
See also http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/11/msg00290.html And I'm quoting below my personal answer to Ron's off-list question about 'my transition plan': "My plan is preparing an experimental 2.8 package and asking all interested developers trying building and doing some extensive tests against it. A 2.6 -> 2.8 migration is out of mind due to consistent changes in APIs and behaviors. Some programs could consistently use 2.8 without glitches, some others not. As in case of libdb for instance, we will have to live with multiple source packages, at least until all interested upstreams will not move completely to new interfaces. Than some version will become droppable (i.e. the old 2.4). I did not expect the situation will become better with 3.0. And the current status require starting a team work, because no maintainers can reasonably maintain the monster alone, as already true for Qt and GTK+. People who monitor svn development and create suitable ad-hoc patches to manage main issues are also required. Now, what are YOUR plans?" No answer. It is quite clear that Ron will not support anything which is not 3.0 whenever ready (after Lenny freezing I suppose). I received (if my memory does not fail) no contact by other supposed interested people in the meantime. I find quite superfluous waiting another month in the long way to a wxwidgets 2.8 package stabilization. It needs action and now. PS: I'm not personally interested in supporting wxwidgets because already heavily involved in other tasks, sorry. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
