[darcs-users] [patch111] Contribute vc-darcs.el for Emacs VC support.

Ganesh Sittampalam ganesh at earth.li
Sat Dec 12 17:39:36 UTC 2009


On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Dave Love wrote:

> Jason Dagit <dagit at codersbase.com> writes:

>> Would you be willing to step up as the maintainer of this code?
>> According to the above policy, that is what we need.
>
> Well, I am maintaining it, but I'll have to say no as I can't promise to
> respond to reports within a week.  I think that's an unrealistic
> requirement, and even two weeks is stretching it for people who might be
> on holiday, or can't respond to mail.  After all, reports about darcs
> itself aren't necessarily treated that promptly.  [That's not meant to
> sound surly, should it come across like that.]

[this is talking about http://wiki.darcs.net/Development/Policy]

I agree that a week is unreasonable and I think we should change the 
requirement. I suggest either a month, or some vaguer statement that we'll 
remove stuff that seems to be unmaintained.

Ganesh


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