Hi, On 01/01/2020 06.43, Simon Lees wrote: > > Hi > > On 12/31/19 2:55 AM, Piotr Karbowski wrote: >> Hi, >> >> It appears that xdg-utils is dead upstream, handful of merge requests >> (mine including) rots waiting for comments/merge, no new commits being >> pushed to repo either. >> >> I am considering forking xdg-utils and maintaining it for Gentoo, but it >> could be much better if I could maintain the original project, if no one >> else does, if possible so something beside Gentoo could benefit from it. >> >> I am not sure to whom should I reach, I've mailed a few people who's >> commits recent in repo but did not got a single response. >> >> So, xdg list, how can one take over supposedly dead xdg-utils >> maintainership? >> > > I am the maintainer for SUSE / openSUSE, i've only had commit access for > the last few months, but am working through some stuff, between other > work but given travel and some other stuff coming up in January I > probably won't get back to xdg-utils until feburary at the earliest. > > SUSE has a "hackweek" once or twice every year where they allow > employee's a week to work on whatever projects they feel like, I believe > the next one will be in February. Currently i'm planning to use most of > that time to start working on porting the more complex parts into > python. Especially parts that deal with parsing desktop files and mime > database where there are already python libraries that can be utilized. > From memory there are some other corner case bugs that can't really be > fixed while using a posix compliant shell but that wont exist when using > python api. > > At the same time there are parts of utilities like xdg-terminal that > make more sense and are much simpler in shell, so I suspect the answer > will end up being shell scripts that call out to python scripts that are > just wrappers around a library. An example would be functions like > desktop_file_to_binary etc. > > In the shorter term I haven't really looked at the release process > because on openSUSE we have historically just taken "snapshots" from the > git repo when it suites us since before I was maintainer so I haven't > had as much motivation to look into what the official release process > has been. I'll also review merge requests that are easy to merge (I > should now atleast get email notifications for these and new issues). I > also need to take the hour to sit down and learn how to manually merge > commits with gitlab such as the one you have open. But i'm not sure i'll > get this time in the next couple of weeks. It will likely depend on how > I progress with writing the conference talk i'm working on. If I have > enough permissions and no one objects in the next week I can try and > give you some access although currently I only have "Developer" rights > not "Maintainer" rights and I haven't looked at the differences. > > Cheers > > Simon
I'd like to follow up on this. xdg-utils has not seen a commit in master for 5 months, my merge request rots out there for 1 year already. Project looks kind of abandoned and I'd like to pick it up, is there anyone who can pass the access to repository? -- Piotr. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
