RE: Formally stepping down as maintainer for "ga" package

[JohnD]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olaf Till [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2019 2:26 PM
> To: JohnD
> Cc: address@hidden; 'Luca Favatella'
> Subject: Re: Formally stepping down as maintainer for "ga" package
> 
> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 01:36:44PM -0400, JohnD wrote:
> > > Message: 3
> > > Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 16:28:02 +0200
> > > From: Olaf Till <address@hidden>
> > > To: Kai Torben Ohlhus <address@hidden>
> > > Cc: Luca Favatella <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> > > Subject: Re: Formally stepping down as maintainer for "ga" package
> > > Message-ID: <address@hidden>
> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 11:35:45PM +0200, Kai Torben Ohlhus wrote:
> > > > On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 12:39 AM Luca Favatella
> > > > <address@hidden>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > Years ago I planted the "ga" package as part of a University
> > > > > project though I have not actually maintained it so I would like
> > > > > to formally step down as maintainer.
> > > > >
> > > > > I see myself listed as maintainer at
> > > > > https://octave.sourceforge.io/ga/index.html
> > > > > I would be grateful if you removed me as maintainer from there.
> > > > > If you pointed me to how to do so (I expect in this case I would
> > > > > need some credentials ...) I would be happy to. Please feel free
> > > > > to unlist the package if easier.
> > > > >
> > > > > I had thought I would have eventually found time to get back to
> > > > > it though I was wrong.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks and regards
> > > > > Luca
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > Dear Luca,
> > > >
> > > > Thank you for sharing your "ga" package with us.  It is likely,
> > > > that
> > your
> > > > request of being removed from the OF-website gets lost on this
> > > > mailing-list.  I am not involved into OF yet, but if you are one
> > > > of the members [1], you might be able to create a ticket [2] so
> > > > your request is not forgotten.
> > > >
> > > > Best regards,
> > > > Kai
> > > >
> > > > [1] https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/_members/
> > > > [2] https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/package-releases/
> > >
> > > Well, I've set the package to 'unmaintained' now... There were a few
> > > commits since the last release (2012), but no release. If anyone has
> > > a good reason to object to the change, I'll revert it.
> > >
> > > Luca, this means that no link to this package is listed anymore by
> > > our website. However, as for the other unmaintained packages, the
> > > packages index page can still be reached by its URL. I wouldn't
> > > change the index page, since it truely states that you had been the
> > > maintainer of this (old) release. If this should be a problem for
> > > you, there is the possibility to remove the packages index page
> > > entirely (if nobody objects to it for some good reason).
> > >
> > > Olaf
> >
> >
> >
> > I'll willing to at least maintain the package.
> >
> > I looks like the last commit was from me anyway.
> >
> > Taking a quick look at the issue tracker, I see one bug with a patch
> > included
> >
> 
> Ok, very nice -- but since Luca seems to prefer not to have the package
listed as
> long as he is named as the maintainer, I'd suggest that we leave the
packages
> status set to 'unmaintained' until a new release is made (with either you
or
> Octave-Forge community as the maintainer, whatever you think is suitable).
Is
> that ok for you?
> 
> Olaf
> 
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That's fine -  I'll work on a bug release version in the next week or so (I
hope)