[ltp] tp_smapi
Wade Curry
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:05:20 -0700
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh(hmh@hmh.eng.br) wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> > Wade Curry <wade-ml-linux-thinkpad@syntaxman.org> writes:
> > > Being that Multinymous means "many names", and "Shem" is
> > > Hebrew for "name", I assumed that the previous maintainer was
> > > more of a corporate sponsor/team. Who is it that is actually
> > > handing over the reigns to the project?
> >
> > If you accept an alias for the other submissions, then I can't
> > see how you can refuse the alias signing a maintainership
> > transfer as well. You have no other options, do you?
>
> Well, FWIW, I can stand as a witness, since I was cc'd by Shem on
> the relevant conversation of the maintanership handover.
>
> Besides, there is not even a need to do it officially: the
> license supports forking, and if you're the only one currently
> working on the code, you're the maintainer of the fork people are
> going to use. All it takes is announcing new releases here,
> really.
>
I was really only curious about the nature of the previous
maintainer. :-)
Wade Curry