Hello, all. As I have noted on the Vacation wiki page [1] for the past couple of months, I will be away from December 23 (next Saturday) through the new year (on out-of-state vacation with family). During this time, I ask that other packagers and contributors maintain my packages [2] for me, watching for updates, bug reports (especially security issues that may potentially arise), needed rebuilds, et al. My current plans for each are as follows: * glabels All branches (FC-5, FC-6, devel) are currently tracking the stable 2.0.x release series. When I return, however, I plan to bump the Devel branch to track the newer 2.1.x series. (This is tentative and pending further discussion on the upstream development list.) * gaim-libnotify This is for Gaim 2.x (currently beta in Core of FC6+), and thus only has branches for FC-6 and devel. Both are tracking the upstream releases. Version 0.12 is currently the latest, but 0.13 is a work in progress with some bug fixes and re-additions of some features for the gaim 2.0-beta4 API (such as new-conversation-only notifications). * gnome-applet-music Upstream on this has been quiet, but active nonetheless. A bug-fix release (proper rhythmbox song change notification, updated translations, etc.) is currently in the upstream development tree. * gnome-theme-clearlooks-big pack and lucidlife Both of these packages have active upstreams, but are in a state of "It works nicely; so not much actual development is needed." I have the source tarball for gnome-theme-clearlooks-bigpack mirrored on my webspace to keep it versioned. Should a new version be out while I am away, I ask that someone else with some webspace rename it similarly and host it, since upstream has said that they do not want to name their tarballs with versions (which makes our job as packagers just a tad more difficult, unfortunately...) * labyrinth Don Scorgie (the main upstream developer of this) recently announced [3] that he is finishing up his Ph.D and going on a job hunt; and therefore won't have nearly as much time for Labyrinth hacking; but it is still in active (though quiet) development and there are several things he wants to review/commit when the opportunity arises. * obconf, obmenu, and openbox I no longer use these three (having recently placed them in the Potential Orphans category [4]), but I still try to keep them updated and watch for bug reports, et al. If anyone wants to take these as primary maintainers, especially active users of these, please feel free to do so. (Edit owners.list as appropriate; and re-assign any open bug reports to yourself.) * ots The current release (0.4.2) is somewhat older (from November of 2003); and a new version has been in development for quite some time. While no timeline of it is tentatively scheduled, it is used by the AbiWord summarizer plugin; and the previous maintainer of this in Extras (Michael Knox) had other obligations [5] to attend to. A demo of the next version is available (as Flash, unfortunately...) on their webpage [6]. * scribes and scribes-templates This is quiet for now, but development will pickup again soon. Many of us are experiencing seemingly random errors whereby the .scribesclient script hangs and causes a processor-intensive zombie task; and work is underway to triage this (as it is a very big pain in butt). However, it is very difficult to reproduce; and thus difficult to debug as well (tracking in upstream SourceForge bug #1617598). * viaideinfo This is another package that is in a mature-but-updated state. Its developer (Daniel Drake of kernel fame) adds new hardware IDs and whatnot from time to time, and therefore releases new versions. Thanks! [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Vacation [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PeterGordon#StuffIMaintain [3] http://mail-archive.com/labyrinth-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg00067.html [4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/OrphanedPackages#incoming [5] https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-September/msg00435.html [6] http://libots.sourceforge.net/demo1.html -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479 My Blog: http://thecodergeek.com/blog/
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