[gentoo-dev] Anyone intrested in maintaining Midnight Commander?

[gentoo-dev] Anyone intrested in maintaining Midnight Commander?

[Samuli Suominen]

The latest version is now patch free, 4.7.0_pre3, and there's only 1 bug
open. So I'm basically done with it.

If any of you actually use it, feel free to substitute me from the
metadata.xml, I just picked it up because nobody else did.

Thanks, Samuli

Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone intrested in maintaining Midnight Commander?

[matt mooney]

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Hi Samuli,

I would possibly be interested in maintaining mc. I am not a current gentoo
developer, but I have been trying to get involved recently. Is there anyway
I could help out? Or is this only for current gentoo developers.

Thanks,
matt

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>wrote:

> The latest version is now patch free, 4.7.0_pre3, and there's only 1 bug
> open. So I'm basically done with it.
>
> If any of you actually use it, feel free to substitute me from the
> metadata.xml, I just picked it up because nobody else did.
>
> Thanks, Samuli
>
>

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone intrested in maintaining Midnight Commander?

[matt mooney]

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Hi Samuli,

I would possibly be interested in maintaining mc. I am not a current gentoo
developer, but I have been trying to get involved recently. Is there anyway
I could help out? Or is this only for current gentoo developers.

Thanks,
matt

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>wrote:

> The latest version is now patch free, 4.7.0_pre3, and there's only 1 bug
> open. So I'm basically done with it.
>
> If any of you actually use it, feel free to substitute me from the
> metadata.xml, I just picked it up because nobody else did.
>
> Thanks, Samuli
>
>

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone intrested in maintaining Midnight Commander?

[Alex Alexander]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 21:57, Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> wrote:
> The latest version is now patch free, 4.7.0_pre3, and there's only 1 bug
> open. So I'm basically done with it.
>
> If any of you actually use it, feel free to substitute me from the
> metadata.xml, I just picked it up because nobody else did.
>
> Thanks, Samuli

/me uses it

I'll take it off your hands, thanks for taking care of it for so long.

-- 
Alex || wired

Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone intrested in maintaining Midnight Commander?

[Philip Webb]

091003 Alex Alexander wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 21:57, Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> The latest version is now patch free, 4.7.0_pre3,
>> and there's only 1 bug open. So I'm basically done with it.
>> If any of you actually use it, feel free to substitute me
>> from the metadata.xml, I just picked it up because nobody else did.
> /me uses it
> I'll take it off your hands, thanks for taking care of it for so long.

I don't use MC currently, but it has recently been taken up seriously
by a new team of MC devs, 4.7.0 being their 1st basic update.
Hopefully, they are aiming for a really new 5.0.0 ,
which may get a lot of people using it again,
so it deserves to have a dedicated maintainer among Gentoo devs.

Thanks as always to the devs for their volunteer work.

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[gentoo-dev] Re: Anyone intrested in maintaining Midnight Commander?

[Duncan]

matt mooney posted on Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:40:55 -0700 as excerpted:

> I would possibly be interested in maintaining mc. I am not a current
> gentoo developer, but I have been trying to get involved recently. Is
> there anyway I could help out? Or is this only for current gentoo
> developers.

Hi, Matt,

I'm just a user (both Gentoo and mc) too.  A gentoo-dev needs to be the 
committing maintainer, but there's what's called a proxy maintainer setup 
as well.  

If you're interested in being the user maintainer while he's the proxy, 
contact Alex A (aka and gentoo email wired@), who appears to have taken 
it.  The way that works is that you'd work in partnership with him, 
probably grabbing any version bumps and testing them, making any ebuild 
and patch changes necessary, and then forwarding it to wired to actually 
make the commit.  That saves him time to work on other packages, and may 
well get new mc versions in the tree much faster, especially if you 
follow upstream closely and he doesn't.

That's a great way to learn the ins and outs of Gentoo and work toward 
general Gentoo devhood as well, if you're interested.  If not, you can 
simply continue user-maintaining the single package you are interested 
in.  Either way, it benefits both Gentoo and other users (like me) of the 
package.

Of course, that's all conditional on you and he forging a good working 
relationship, but most devs won't complain about being offered some help. 
=:^)

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