[maemo-developers] Garage project takeover

[From: Niels Breet]

> Hello,
Hi,
>
> I am currently doing some maintainance work on DOSBox for Maemo (and
> I am the author of the current package in -devel). In order to fulfill
> the extras QA bugtracker requeriment and my own need for a VCS repo, I
> considered registering a new project in Garage, but found that the project
> was already registered.
>
> Quite a few months ago I contacted the maintainer, but he hasn't answered
> yet, and the Garage interface won't let me spam him again until he accepts
> or declines the current request. So, a week ago, I sent him an email, with
>  still no reply.
>
> I could register a "dosbox2" project, or just ignore Garage and go
> straight to a b.m.o component and a gitorius project, but since the Garage
> project already exists and is virtually empty, I'd like to know if there's
> any policy about takeover of empty/abandoned Garage projects by "new
> maintainers", or to kickstart discussions about one if it does not exist
> yet.
>

The project is completely empty and doesn't seem to be used since it has
been created on 2007-12-08.

I can set you as admin for that project as you seem to be a lot more
active than the current admin.

I'd like to get an OK from the council so we all agree on this. If there
had been data in the project it was a more difficult decision, but now it
seems completely empty.

A policy on this kind of takeovers doesn't exist, but I guess common sense
and communication would help solve issues like this.

> DOSBox garage link: https://garage.maemo.org/projects/dosbox
>
>
> --
> Javier
>
>

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Niels Breet
maemo.org webmaster