Re: looking for a maintainer for package remind

[Neil Hanlon]

Hi Kurt,

I'd be happy to help maintain this with you. I've actually been looking for
something like Remind for a while now!

Best,
Neil


On Wed, Oct 25, 2023, 07:33 Kurt Keller <mailverfolger+fedora(a)gmail.com&gt;
wrote:

>  Remind (https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/) is a terminal
> based
>  reminder utility (with optional Tk GUI frontend). It's kind of a
>  supercharged version of the calendar utility.
>
>  Remind has been in the fedora packages for many years, but the last update
>  to it has happened in fc24 and after fc29 it got orphaned and disappeared.
>  Installing the fc29 RPM on current fedora versions still works flawlessly
>  but is, by now, somewhat out of date.
>
>  I'd like to see the package back in the software channels and have updated
>  the SPEC file for fc38 and version 04.02.06 of remind and created a pull
>  request (https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/remind/pull-request/2).
>
>  A request to unretire the package has been made (
>  https://pagure.io/releng/issue/11740). Doing so I learnt a bit more about
>  the fedora software package world. I'm happy to help and support a package
>  maintainer keeping things up to date and learn more along the way, but
>  taking on the role as maintainer of the package is over the top of my head
>  and my current abilities. So I'd like to ask if somebody was willing to
>  take over the role as official maintainer for the remind package.
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  Kurt
>
>  PS:
>  An update to the recently released version 04.02.07 is already waiting in
>  my fork:
>
>  https://src.fedoraproject.org/fork/kkeller/rpms/remind/commits/remind_04....
>  but unless somebody is willing to take over maintainership I don't see much
>  use creating another pull request.
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