[Sugar-devel] Volunteering to maintain GetBooks

[David Farning]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sugar-devel-bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto:sugar-devel-
> bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Gonzalo Odiard
> Sent: lunes, 11 de abril de 2011 10:35 a.m.
> To: Sugar-dev Devel
> Cc: Sayamindu Dasgupta
> Subject: [Sugar-devel] Volunteering to maintain GetBooks
> 
> Hi,
> I am working in the GetBooks activity, I have cloned the repository [1]
and
> added features from the activities Get InternetArchive Books and GetBooks
> Ceibal.
> I am ready to publish a new version in ASLO, would be great if i can
integrate
> the changes in mainline to enable pootle to translate the new strings.
> I have requested access to Sayamindu, but did not have response. I think
he
> is very busy now.
> Regards,
> 
> Gonzalo

+1 One of the biggest challenges with activities maintenance is contacting
and engaging existing maintainers. That challenge is inherent to open source
projects everywhere. Peoples live and interests change -- they go back to
school, they get new jobs, and they start families.

One of the fine lines in open source is allocating and reassigning
responsibilities and authority between full time developers and part time
developers. I hesitate to use the term volunteers because even those who are
get paid to work full time on Sugar, deployment developers, OLPC developers,
and Activity Central are 'volunteers' from Sugar Labs point of view.

So far you, Rafael, and Sebastian are doing a good job finding the balance.

david