Re: [Plib-devel] Creating shared libs or plib under Linux

[Hans de G. <j.w...@hh...>]

steve wrote:
> Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
>> It seems to me that plib development is a bit stuck at everyone waiting
>> one Steve and Steve not having time todo any work on plib, why don't you
>> (the community) take over / why doesn't Steve hand over leadership to
>> someone else?
> 
> I've certainly been too busy with paying work to give PLIB the time it
> deserves.
> 
> However:
> 
> * I don't run this like Linus runs the kernel - I'm not the sole
>    'gatekeeper' of the golden sources.
> 

Good, but the others still seem to want you to act as Linus when a
decision has to be taken they all seem to say I have no opinion lets ask
Steve. (Which is actually a bit different from how Linus does it, there
the others first voice there opinion loudly and then Linus makes the
decision if a consensus can't be reached :).

Now with the shared lib story I can understand that people want to hear
your opinion (besides their own) But why noone sofar has reacted to my
pw fullscreen patch is a mistery. Yes I know its Xlib only, I would hope
a windows developer to step up and implement the windows version that
shouldn't be to hard I think.

> * I don't believe I've ever turned down anyone who requested developer
>    status.  If you plan to regularly commit patches and you aren't a
>    developer - let me know and I'll give you CVS access.
> 

Erm, I'll just lurk around on the list for now to get a hang of things
are done in plib and I'll wait and see how many patches for plib I
produce. If I get and hit no plib related bugs in my Fedora work I
probably won't be doing much plib work and then CVS access won't be
necessary. But if I ever feel the need for it I'll ask, thanks!

> * The only tasks you really need me to help out with are those that
>    require admin privilage:
> 
>    + Mailing list settings.
>    + Making releases.
>    + Creating new developers.
>    + Doing stuff like transitioning CVS to SVN.
> 

I assume with "you" you mean the plib developer community, not me :) Yes
it would be great if someone could step up and to those things. Come one
everyone any takers?

Regards,

Hans