[TYPO3-dev] Who is the owner of t3quotes? #133

[David Bruchmann]

Von:        Francois Suter <fsu-lists at cobweb.ch>
Gesendet:   Mittwoch, 17. März 2010 14:09:05

>
>> ok, I can do it.
>> Shall I only publish the changed version?
>> What should be done with the TER-Version (I can't do anything there)?
>
> You should really think seriously before doing that. Taking over the
> maintenance of an extension is a real commitment. And if the code base
> is very old, you may find yourself with desperately obsolete code on
> your hands.
>
> This bug is very old, nobody else complained about it and the reporter
> doesn't even "exist" anymore (i.e. the account is not active anymore on
> Mantis, as can see from the striked-through username).


Hi Francois,

the bug is very obvious and small and I looked at the code and could 
confirm the fault. Furthermore the changed version seemed to be tested.

 From this point of view I never thought about all the steps you described.

>
> But I agree that it's a good idea to close old bugs and it's nice that
> you went on such a crusade and push us into action. My proposal: I can
> set that bug's status to feedback. If no feedback comes within some
> predefined time (I think someone proposed 3 months in a separate
> thread), then we just close the bug.

In some Mailinglist I read a thread about this ext. but apart from that 
I don't know if someone is willing to give feedback. Sure we could wait 
for the 3 month but I have another dialog with Xavier now and further 
potential bugs had to be reported anyway.

>
> Now if you really want to become the new owner of the extension, I guess
> there's absolutely no problem. Basically all extensions that belong to
> Kasper are up for grabs by any enthusiastic maintainer. You can request
> that the extension key be transferred to you, although I keep losing
> where the exact steps for that are defined :-(
>

In general these steps follow some rules even if they aren't defined 
somewhere very strict. For Core-Parts and important extensions this 
ruleset is quite positive (additionaly with the judgement 1+ or 1-). But 
I'll follow now my dialog with Xavier and will upload it to forge - I 
hope in this case your warning don't will have such effect like you 
mentioned ;-)

Best Regards
David