[Sugar-devel] Paint maintainer MIA?

[Manusheel Gupta]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:34 PM, David Farning <dfarning at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 16:22, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>
> wrote:
> >> On 06/07/2010 04:14 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> >>> Anybody knows if the Paint maintainer is M.I.A.?
> >>> I have sent patches the last month and James Cameron has reviewed them,
> but
> >>> there aren't any response from the maintainer. In the git repository,
> the
> >>> last commits to change code were by Aleksey and Simon in 2009-06.
> >>> I volunteer to maintainer if  nobody want to take this role.
> >>
> >> Hi Gonzalo,
> >>
> >> these are great news! I have not seen any contributions to Paint from
> >> anybody besides Aleksey and myself. I would be just wonderful to have
> >> someone giving Paint the attention it deserves.
> >>
> >> If you are willing to, I don't see anything stopping you from doing it
> ;)
> >
> > Isn't Manu in LinuxTag these days? He used to keep track of who
> > maintains Paint back when he was at OLPC.
>
> I think Manu (CCed) would fully support this handover.  He has his
> hand pretty full getting the Seeta developers up to speed developing
> and maintaining Sugar on Ubuntu.
>

Thanks David. Appreciate your kind regards and pointers.

I would be happy to have Gonzalo work with us towards maintaining Paint and
fixing bugs over this summer. In reference to Bernie's recommendation, we
did hire an intern, Kamakshi Aggarwal, who'll be working with pointers
from Nathalia
Sautchuk Patrício, one of the original developers of Oficina. We have a huge
pile of tickets now. She will be starting her training on Paint during this
week. Gonzalo, will highly appreciate if you and Kamakshi work together on
this project. Will be forwarding her the documentation on Paint sometime
soon, and will copy you on the memos. Thank you for your initiative.

Gonzalo, we do have our priorities well defined for Paint. I'll send you the
list of top 5 test track items, which need immediate attention from our
side.



>
> Seeta, has a good deal of experience in abiword. So, I believe they
> will be volunteering to take maintainership of write.
>


David, thank you. Yes, we do have two developers, Diksha and Lakky, who look
after Newspaper activity under the guidance of Vijit, and they will be
getting trained on PyAbiword. Depending upon their bandwidth to take up and
support multiple projects, they'll get started on Write. Again, I would like
to start with high floor and low ceiling. Will let expectations build up
depending upon the performance.



>
> Once Lucian gets up to speed converting browse to webkit, Activity
> Central will volunteer to assist development and maintainership of
> browse.
>

David, do we have an answer on how this shift will affect activities like
SocialCalc? Will we be receiving documentation on how we could shift our
base to webkit with optimal hacking time spend from our side?

Regards,

Manu



>
> david
>
> > That said, Gonzalo seems to have been doing a great work and I don't
> > think we should stop him for taking this responsibility if he wants
> > to.
>
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