Bug#725309: RFP: teatimer - A tea brewing timer

[intrigeri]

Hi,

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote (26 Oct 2013 15:02:06 GMT) :
>> I'd like to team-maintain this package under the GNOME team umbrella.
>> Thoughts about this?

> I feel like we already have too many non-core packages that somebody packaged
> and eventually lost interest or just went MIA. I've been trying to reduce that
> and make things go the opposite way, so I don't like this, sorry.

Fair enough, understood.

Here's my plan, then: I'll maintain this extension on my own for
a while, and if it proves to be well-maintained enough upstream and
still seems to be a worthwhile addition to Debian, and once my record
suggests I'm not going MIA, then I might propose team-maintenance
again, and we'll see (if you're curious, see e.g. the GTK / GObject
Introspection / etc. Perl bindings, that I'm maintaining as part of
the Perl team, for an example of how I've been handling
team-maintenance of packages that I'm primarily interested in).

As a side note, my (limited) experience in the Debian Perl team is
that most new members join us to maintain a new package or a few.
Certainly, quite a few of them go MIA after a while, but that's also
our main way to get new contributors, and some of them eventually get
more involved in the team. I'm not saying *I* specifically was
intending to become strongly invested in the GNOME team (ENOTIME),
just sharing my experience that sometimes, when the team can handle it
(I know that may be a hard pre-requisite), it's worth it to allow
people to potentially add to the collective plate (if they disappear),
if it brings a few active team members in.

Anyway, thanks a lot for your work on GNOME in Debian!

Cheers,
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