Re: NonGNU ELPA: taking over/forking ws-butler

[Philip Kaludercic]

Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I wrote the following e-mail to Le Wang a fortnight ago and have
> received no response.  And he has not been active on github, where
> ws-butler was developed, in some years.
>
> Stefan, do you think it would be okay if I go ahead and essentially fork
> it by maintaining it out of nongnu-elpa.git?

Is there a reason you want to maintaining from nongnu.git?  It would
also be possible to redirect it to some new repository that you would
have control over instead.

> Thanks.
>
> -- 
> Sean Whitton
>
> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
> Subject: taking over ws-butler
> To: Le Wang <l26wang@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2024 01:46:40 +0800 (2 weeks, 1 day, 22 hours ago)
>
> Hello Le,
>
> I love ws-butler, as do many others.
>
> ws-butler has a number of open issues and could generally use some
> maintainance work.
> Would you consider letting me take over as maintainer, please?
>
> I've been maintaining ws-butler in the official Debian repositories
> since 2016 and I have commit access to upstream Emacs, GNU ELPA and
> NonGNU ELPA.
>
> I'd leave you as Author, and add a Maintainer line for myself.
> You could either grant me access to your repository on github, or
> transfer the repository to me, which automatically establishes a
> redirect.  In the latter case I could give you push access so you could
> still make changes.
>
> Thank you for considering this.

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