Hi people!
Marcus Denker denker@iam.unibe.ch wrote:
On 30.03.2006, at 12:41, Germán Arduino wrote:
I regrett really that this is a long time reported (and assigned) bug in Mantis. from February 18, very simple to solve, but seems that the maintainer of the package has no time :(
The problem is known even longer (December or Jan), and actually the cause is a deprecated method that has been deprecated over 1.5 years (!) ago.
But which AFAIK didn't "show up" until lately, right? At least I can't recall getting a "warning" in my face.
It's a one line fix, but that has to be done in a repository where I have no access to, so I can not fix it myself.... sorry.
You ask and ye shall receive. I have asked numerous times for help in maintaining SM but have gotten ZERO replies earlier. Now apparently you want to help me and great, I am adding you as a co-maintainer and will send you write access to the server.
There is a downside of "maintained" packages: Nothing happens with Network for 3 Months,
Things did happen a bit (at least *I* did a few fixes) but I didn't get around to "zipping it all up". I think I explained it in detail if someone wanted to do the picking - but if noone does then I will eventually get around to it.
we have not seen a Unix vm build since three years,
That is true and a bit worrying. Do we have any suggestions on who to pick that up? I can picture a few names in my head - but have no idea about interest.
and SqueakMap is broken for 3 Months.
"broken" is a bit harsh - yes, it flunks in the current 3.9alpha or beta, but not in 3.8 AFAIK.
Now, if/when you fix it btw - make sure that the "SqueakMap" package (the script) picks the correct release of base and also - check that your fix works back in 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8 too.
Otherwise I will give it a shot (as I think I said the other day) tonight.
Maybe we need to define more clearly what it really means to be a Maintainer. Right now I have the feeling that making something "maintained" is the best way to ensure that nothing happns at all.
Hardly think so - but our free time comes and goes. Mine has turned pretty slim.
regards, Göran