On So, 21 Jul 2024, Daniel Smith wrote:
> On Sun Jul 21, 2024 at 4:17 AM EDT, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > thanks for offering help to improve the progress.vim syntax. Since the
> > file hasn't been updated since 2012 (according to the header), it's very
> > plausible, that it is currently unmaintained (and as you said you
> > couldn't even reach the maintainer). In that case, please go ahead make
> > your changes and create a PR on the Vim repository with you changes.
>
> All right, will do.
>
> > Please also add yourself as Maintainer (also in MAINTAINERS) and move
> > the current Maintainer to Previous Maintainer line.
>
> I'm fine with becoming the maintainer for the short term, but I only
> work with Progress in a limited capacity at my job and we're expecting
> to move away from it in a few years. After that happens, I don't
> anticipate that I'll have much further involvement in the Progress
> ecosystem/community. When the time comes, is there an established
> mechanism for explicitly marking the file as up-for-grabs, to streamline
> things a bit for the next person to come along?
That is totally fine. I started marking files that are unmaintained with
the phrase: "This runtime file is looking for a new maintainer".
However, often authors/maintainers don't explicitly give up
maintainership, so I can do this only when I know about it.
Thanks,
Christian
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