AWOL: jpo

[Tom Callaway]

It seems that Jose Pedro Oliveira (aka jpo) is not coming back to
Fedora. He has 28 open bug tickets, most of them in the new state, and
he has not touched any of his packages or bugzilla since June.

I'm initiating the AWOL process so that we can work on finding new homes
for all of his many packages, and start bugfixing them.

Here's the buglist:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_d...

I think that all reasonable attempts to contact the maintainer have been
made, I emailed him several months ago to try and get a response and got
none.

If he does not respond to this email in a week, I'll take over all of
his packages (temporarily) and post to fedora-devel that they're all up
for grabs.

Thanks,

~spot

[Hans de Goede]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>  It seems that Jose Pedro Oliveira (aka jpo) is not coming back to
>  Fedora. He has 28 open bug tickets, most of them in the new state, and
>  he has not touched any of his packages or bugzilla since June.
>  
<ugh>, I hope he resurfaces.

Regards,

Hans

[Tim Spaulding]

Me too...   Good luck finding a new Perl maintainer...  :)  He/she sits right next to the
Assembler programmer.  :)

Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede(a)hhs.nl&gt; wrote: Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>  It seems that Jose Pedro Oliveira (aka jpo) is not coming back to
>  Fedora. He has 28 open bug tickets, most of them in the new state, and
>  he has not touched any of his packages or bugzilla since June.
>  
, I hope he resurfaces.

Regards,

Hans

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[Richi Plana]

On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 10:03 -0800, Timothy Spaulding wrote:
>  Me too...   Good luck finding a new Perl maintainer...  :)  He/she
>  sits right next to the Assembler programmer.  :) 
<wistful-musing off-topic="true">
As much as I love Perl and I prefer it over all existing scripting
languages I'm familiar with, it's hard to get excited about its future
since the developers are extremely quiet about it. My only hope now is
that other scripting languages pick up the little things that make
developing in Perl a joy so that I and many others like me can move on.

*sigh*
</wistful-musing>
--

Richi Plana

[Brian Wheeler]

On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 11:41 -0700, Richi Plana wrote:
>  On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 10:03 -0800, Timothy Spaulding wrote:
>  > Me too...   Good luck finding a new Perl maintainer...  :)  He/she
>  > sits right next to the Assembler programmer.  :)
>  
>  <wistful-musing off-topic="true">
>  As much as I love Perl and I prefer it over all existing scripting
>  languages I'm familiar with, it's hard to get excited about its future
>  since the developers are extremely quiet about it. My only hope now is
>  that other scripting languages pick up the little things that make
>  developing in Perl a joy so that I and many others like me can move on.
>  
>  *sigh*
>  </wistful-musing> 
Hear, hear!  

Perl6 is probably one of the finest examples of "second system effect"
I've ever come across...which is really sad since they kept pointing out
that they were trying very hard to avoid the SSE.

Brian

[Casey Dahlin]

Richi Plana wrote:
>  On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 10:03 -0800, Timothy Spaulding wrote:
>    
> > Me too...   Good luck finding a new Perl maintainer...  :)  He/she
> > sits right next to the Assembler programmer.  :)
> >     
>
>  <wistful-musing off-topic="true">
>  As much as I love Perl and I prefer it over all existing scripting
>  languages I'm familiar with, it's hard to get excited about its future
>  since the developers are extremely quiet about it. My only hope now is
>  that other scripting languages pick up the little things that make
>  developing in Perl a joy so that I and many others like me can move on.
>
>  *sigh*
>  </wistful-musing>
>  --
>
>  Richi Plana
>
>     
<certain-to-start-massive-flame>
Have you tried ruby?
</certain-to-start-massive-flame>

[Steven Bakker]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:41:25 -0700 Richi Plana wrote:

>  As much as I love Perl and I prefer it over all existing scripting
>  languages I'm familiar with, it's hard to get excited about its future
>  since the developers are extremely quiet about it. 
They're probably quiet about it because they prefer coding over talking :-)

Perl 5.10-RC1 has been unleashed recently[1], full of nice new
features[2], borrowing some from (the still-vaporware) Perl6 (named
capture buffers!).

[1] http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/perl-5.10.0-RC1/
[2] http://www.slideshare.net/rjbs/perl-510-for-people-who-arent-totally-insane

-- Steven

[Patrice Dumas]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 11:01:28AM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
>  It seems that Jose Pedro Oliveira (aka jpo) is not coming back to
>  Fedora.  
That's really unfortunate, I hope he'll come back at some point.

--
Pat

[Michel Salim]

On 20/11/2007, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  It seems that Jose Pedro Oliveira (aka jpo) is not coming back to
>  Fedora. He has 28 open bug tickets, most of them in the new state, and
>  he has not touched any of his packages or bugzilla since June.
>
>  I'm initiating the AWOL process so that we can work on finding new homes
>  for all of his many packages, and start bugfixing them.
>  
Hopefully he will come back, but otherwise, I'd like to take over pdfjoin.

Regards,

-- 
Michel Salim
http://hircus.jaiku.com/

[Tom Callaway]

On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 03:02 -0500, Michel Salim wrote:
>  On 20/11/2007, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  > It seems that Jose Pedro Oliveira (aka jpo) is not coming back to
>  > Fedora. He has 28 open bug tickets, most of them in the new state, and
>  > he has not touched any of his packages or bugzilla since June.
>  >
>  > I'm initiating the AWOL process so that we can work on finding new homes
>  > for all of his many packages, and start bugfixing them.
>  >
>  
>  Hopefully he will come back, but otherwise, I'd like to take over pdfjoin. 
pdfjam is now yours for F-7, F-8, and devel.

~spot

[Tom Callaway]

On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 11:01 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:

>  If he does not respond to this email in a week, I'll take over
> all of
>  his packages (temporarily) and post to fedora-devel that they're all up
>  for grabs. 
In accordance with the AWOL policy, I've now declared jpo AWOL. Many of
his packages have already been claimed by the perl-SIG, but there are
some packages available (I currently own them, but will happily pass
them on to a more motivated maintainer):

  * asymptote -- Descriptive vector graphics language
      * eventlog -- Syslog-ng v2 support library
      * libcgi -- CGI easy as C
      * libsmi -- A library to access SMI MIB information
      * nagios-plugins-snmp-disk-proc -- Nagios SNMP plugins to monitor
        remote disk and processes
      * srecord -- Manipulate EPROM load files
      * swatch -- Tool for actively monitoring log files
      * syslog-ng -- Syslog replacement daemon
      * tetex-bytefield -- Create illustrations for network protocol
        specifications
      * tetex-perltex -- Define LaTeX macros in terms of Perl code

Thanks to all those who volunteered to maintain/comaintain his other
packages.

~spot

[Douglas E. Warner]

On Tuesday 27 November 2007, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>        * eventlog -- Syslog-ng v2 support library
>        * syslog-ng -- Syslog replacement daemon 
I'll take these two if others aren't interested.

-Doug

[Hans de Goede]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>  On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 11:01 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway
> wrote:
>  
> > If he does not respond to this email in a week, I'll take over all of
> > his packages (temporarily) and post to fedora-devel that they're all up
> > for grabs.
>  
>  In accordance with the AWOL policy, I've now declared jpo AWOL. Many of
>  his packages have already been claimed by the perl-SIG, but there are
>  some packages available (I currently own them, but will happily pass
>  them on to a more motivated maintainer):
>  
>    * asymptote -- Descriptive vector graphics language
>        * eventlog -- Syslog-ng v2 support library
>        * libcgi -- CGI easy as C
>        * libsmi -- A library to access SMI MIB information
>        * nagios-plugins-snmp-disk-proc -- Nagios SNMP plugins to monitor
>          remote disk and processes
>        * srecord -- Manipulate EPROM load files
>        * swatch -- Tool for actively monitoring log files
>        * syslog-ng -- Syslog replacement daemon
>        * tetex-bytefield -- Create illustrations for network protocol
>          specifications
>        * tetex-perltex -- Define LaTeX macros in terms of Perl code
>  
>  Thanks to all those who volunteered to maintain/comaintain his other
>  packages.
>   
I don't mind taking the srecord package.

Regards,

Hans