Excerpts from Per Andersson's message of 2014-01-28 22:21:48 +0100: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com> wrote: > > Excerpts from Per Andersson's message of 2014-01-28 02:18:35 +0100: > >> Hi! > >> > >> I am the Debian maintainer for sup. > >> > >> Recently Sup developers adopted ncursesw-ruby (the ncursesw gem) and > >> became the new upstream for that. (Instead of having a fork.) > >> > >> Since a few days ago the original upstream now carries the exact same > >> functionality. Is there any reason for carrying a fork of this any longer? > > > > Where is upstream for this, I'm not sure if I am following you? The only > > active fork of ncurses-ruby (ncursesw-ruby) that I can find is ours - > > which is now known as 'ncursesw' in gem world (ncursesw-sup has been > > removed). > > It was late when I wrote this. What I mean, but did not manage to put in > writing, is that the rmail-sup gem carries the same functionality. And my > suggestion was that we adopt active maintainership of rmail. > > Sorry for the total confusion, I was tired... > > >> I understand that the in the future a migration away from rmail is planned. > >> In the meantime, using rmail gem, could reduce complexity. Perhaps a > >> similar move as with ncursesw-ruby can be made, adopting active > >> maintainership? (I can volunteer for this!) > >> > >> As Matt states, rubymail is looking for active maintainership > >> > >> https://github.com/matta/rubymail/pull/2#issuecomment-33173575 > >> > > > > If you are up for it, that would be good, we might as well push directly > > to RMail (and drop rmail-sup). I suggest you contact Matt and we migrate > > the rmail-sup repoistory in sup-heliotrope (at github) to use the rmail > > namespace. If he wants, we could also just move his repository to the > > sup-heliotrope organization. > > I'll contact Matt and ask! > > > Please also make sure that the other maintainers of sup are > > owners of the rmail gem so that it is not all dependant on one person. > > Absolutely! Sounds good! If Matt agrees to make us maintainers, but wants to retain the original repo, we can just rename the rmail-sup repo to rubymail and revert the gemspec changes. - gaute
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