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Re: [sup-devel] Rubymail maintainership



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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