Subject: Giving up maintenance of my aports

From: Cág <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2019 07:47:06 -0400

Hi,

Since I've not been using Alpine for over a year, I cannot maintain
my aports[0] anymore.  Please, take care of them.

Farewell

[0]: https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=&branch=edge&arch=x86_64&maintainer=C%C3%A1g

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caóc

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From: Will Sinatra <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2019 07:52:39 -0400

caóc,

I'd be happy to help and take over some of those packages. I use micro
Emacs' and acpi on systems in producing, so I'm personally interested in
seeing at least those two packages continue to thrive.

Can anyone provide a brief on how maintainer ship of a package changes
hands?

-Will Sinatra

On Sat, Sep 7, 2019, 7:47 AM Cág <[email-masked]> wrote:

> [0]:
> https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=&branch=edge&arch=x86_64&maintainer=C%C3%A1g
>
> --
> caóc
>

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From: Will Sinatra <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2019 07:57:08 -0400

caóc,

Sincerely,
Will Sinatra

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From: Cág <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2019 08:34:54 -0400

> Can anyone provide a brief on how maintainer ship of a package changes

My guess is you change my name and address in the APKBUILD file and push
it to the repository.  That's what I did back in the day reclaiming
unmaintained aports.

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caóc

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From: Will Sinatra <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2019 10:20:12 -0400

Caóc,

If that works for you then I'll send PR's for the packages I can take
over and list you as a contributor and change the maintainer to
myself?

-Will Sinatra

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From: Cág <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2019 13:26:01 -0400

> over and list you as a contributor and change the maintainer to

If I understand correctly, a contributor is somebody to first send the
APKBUILD.  In cases of mg and acpi, I am not.  So if I'm listed as a
maintainer of a package and the contributor is another person, I don't
become the latter if I give up maintenance.

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caóc

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From: Will Sinatra <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2019 13:47:52 -0400

Really? I was under the impression that a contributor was just someone
who had contributed to the packaging. And that the maintainers were
the ones who made the calls on the package's status/upkeep.

If that's not the case though I'll go ahead and just substitute myself
as the maintainer and call it a day.

-Will Sinatra