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

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Thu 17 Oct 2024 at 02:17pm -04, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> I'd recommend you open a (very short and focused) issue on the upstream
> Github about this, asking for help contacting him, in case he does read
> that, or in case someone else reads that who knows another way to
> reach him.

Okay, done.

> BTW, https://github.com/lewang suggests he contributed to something(?)
> over there recently (on Sept 25).
>
>>> Stefan, do you think it would be okay if I go ahead and essentially
>>> fork it by maintaining it out of nongnu-elpa.git?
>
> Changing the upstream (to `nongnu.git` or anywhere else) due to a new
> maintainership is fine, yes.
>
> But of course doing it without the former maintainer's consent is not ideal.
> I think it deserves waiting a bit more than a fortnight.

Yeah, I wasn't planning to do it immediately, just wanted to ask about
how it could be done.

I'll do it in a further two weeks from now, if no response.

-- 
Sean Whitton