Re: [Erc-discuss] ERC needs a new maintainer

[Michael Olson]

The role basically requires:

 - Making releases

 - Rotating ChangeLog at the start of every year

 - Keeping the version of ERC in Emacs in sync with our git repo (we
release from the git repo) using the "emacs23" git branch

    - First, checkout latest Emacs

    - cd ~/path/to/emacs ; git --git-dir="~/path/to/erc/from/git" add
. ; git --git-dir="[same]" add -u . ; git --git-dir="[same]" git
commit ; cd ~/path/to/erc/from/git ; git reset --hard

    - Then split the massive change from Emacs into separate distinct
logical changes, making note of which changes might be useful for ERC
upstream

    - Take only the useful changes into master, using cherry-picking

 - Making sure that new contributors have assigned changes to the FSF
(you can either email the FSF each time you're uncertain, or request
shell access to the machine which has the master list)

 - Commenting on patches and accepting them once they're in working
order and determined to be useful

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Giorgos Keramidas
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:56:54 -0700, Michael Olson <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I no longer have time to work on ERC, so it will need a new
>> maintainer.  Any volunteers?
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> What are the requirements for helping with maintainership or even taking
> it over to keep ERC alive?
>
> I am not sure if I can raise up to *all* of them, but I am willing to
> give it a try.  If someone else volunteers to co-maintain the project
> and keep it alive, even better.
>
> Finally, _thanks_ for keeping ERC going so far, and for all the times
> you were responsive, helpful and reachable to answer even 'silly'
> questions about basic configuration.  ERC has been my IRC client of
> choice for a long time, and I have grown to like it a lot.  You have
> done a great job :-)
>
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