RE: Formally stepping down as maintainer for "ga" package

[JohnD]

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> Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 16:28:02 +0200
> From: Olaf Till <address@hidden>
> To: Kai Torben Ohlhus <address@hidden>
> Cc: Luca Favatella <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Formally stepping down as maintainer for "ga" package
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> On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 11:35:45PM +0200, Kai Torben Ohlhus wrote:
> > On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 12:39 AM Luca Favatella <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Years ago I planted the "ga" package as part of a University project
> > > though I have not actually maintained it so I would like to formally
> > > step down as maintainer.
> > >
> > > I see myself listed as maintainer at
> > > https://octave.sourceforge.io/ga/index.html
> > > I would be grateful if you removed me as maintainer from there. If you
> > > pointed me to how to do so (I expect in this case I would need some
> > > credentials ...) I would be happy to. Please feel free to unlist the
> > > package if easier.
> > >
> > > I had thought I would have eventually found time to get back to it
> > > though I was wrong.
> > >
> > > Thanks and regards
> > > Luca
> > >
> > >
> > Dear Luca,
> >
> > Thank you for sharing your "ga" package with us.  It is likely, that
your
> > request of being removed from the OF-website gets lost on this
> > mailing-list.  I am not involved into OF yet, but if you are one of the
> > members [1], you might be able to create a ticket [2] so your request is
> > not forgotten.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Kai
> >
> > [1] https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/_members/
> > [2] https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/package-releases/
> 
> Well, I've set the package to 'unmaintained' now... There were a few
> commits since the last release (2012), but no release. If anyone has a
> good reason to object to the change, I'll revert it.
> 
> Luca, this means that no link to this package is listed anymore by our
> website. However, as for the other unmaintained packages, the packages
> index page can still be reached by its URL. I wouldn't change the
> index page, since it truely states that you had been the maintainer of
> this (old) release. If this should be a problem for you, there is the
> possibility to remove the packages index page entirely (if nobody
> objects to it for some good reason).
> 
> Olaf



I'll willing to at least maintain the package.

I looks like the last commit was from me anyway.

Taking a quick look at the issue tracker, I see one bug with a patch
included