[tomboy-list] ANNOUNCE: New maintainer needed for Tomboy

[Robert Nordan]

I can't say anything more useful than this: Thanks for all your good work and all your friendly help as maintainer, I can fully understand that Armstrong 2.0 is the most important project in your life!

/Robert Nordan 

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> Hi Tomboy Fans,
> 
> I've been maintaining Tomboy with varying success for a little over 5
> years, and in that time I've tried to do my best to respond to bugs,
> review patches, and put out releases in a timely fashion.
> 
> But anybody paying attention to things this cycle will have noticed
> that I have not been doing any of those things reliably.   I've skipped
> several scheduled releases, have ignored repeated pings for patch
> review in bugzilla, and haven't landed work on any of the features
> (encryption, gnome-shell support) I had planned to work on for this
> cycle.
> 
> Until now I kept thinking "I'll get to it eventually", but that just
> doesn't appear to be true.   Other priorities (baby, mostly) have
> replaced Tomboy for me.   This has been a tough realization for me.
> 
> So, Tomboy is in need of a new maintainer.   If this new maintainer
> wants to stick with the GNOME release cycle, that means putting out
> releases according to the schedule, paying attention to freezes, etc.
> On top of that, a maintainer needs to keep an eye on bugzilla and work
> with contributors to get their features/fixes into git (or explain to
> them before they write a patch why their feature doesn't make sense
> upstream).
> 
> Since we have had some nice fixes early in the 1.5.x unstable series,
> and GNOME translation teams have continued doing excellent work
> upstream, I plan to release stable Tomboy 1.6.0 tarballs to coincide
> with the release of GNOME 3.0 on April 4th.   I would love to be able
> to work with a new maintainer on this.
> 
> I won't be leaving the Tomboy community.   I will stay on this list,
> try to be active in IRC and bugzilla, and contribute code as I find
> time.   I will happily answer any questions a new maintainer might have
> about how to put out releases, etc.   But I can't be counted on as a
> maintainer anymore, and you guys deserve better.   ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Sandy
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