New nautilus maintainer & Alex on parental leave

[Alexander Larsson]

Starting April 1st I will be on parental leave, this means I will have
little time for Gnome and software in general. Not zero, but very low. I
will be away until approximately the end of the year, although i might
show up at work part-time a bit before that (earliest in september).

However, there has been a bunch of excitement and people interested in
working on nautilus and gvfs these days (and we consider gnome-vfs a
dead end, so it'll just get maintainance updates from now on). So, while
I've been a large driver of these projects I don't think we really are
in such a bad position while I'm gone.

I'd like to also announce that Christian Neumair <cneumair@...> is
now one of the Nautilus maintainers, having done lots of work on
Nautilus in recent years. With him and Martin Wehner as maintainers
besides me there should not be a problem getting releases and regular
work going on when I'm away.

I've been the main code reviewer for Nautilus, and that is clearly not
gonna work when I'm away, so I'd like to propose a system of peer
review, so that each non-trivial patch that goes in at least got checked
over and tested by someone else. I don't know the best way to arrange
this, but my own preference is to handle patch reviewing on the mailing
list (as opposed to bugzilla). That way everyone sees the patch (more
eyes makes bugs more shallow) and everyone sees the feedback (and can
learn from it in the future. So, maybe just post patches to the mailing
list and wait for someone to review them.


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[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Alexander Larsson <alexl@...> wrote:
> Starting April 1st I will be on parental leave, this means I will have
>  little time for Gnome and software in general. Not zero, but very low. I
>  will be away until approximately the end of the year, although i might
>  show up at work part-time a bit before that (earliest in september).

[blah blah]

Me wishing you the best of things, especially being one of my FLOSS
heroes. Thanks for your great contributions...

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[Sriram Ramkrishna-2]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 04:32:03PM +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> Starting April 1st I will be on parental leave, this means I will have
> little time for Gnome and software in general. Not zero, but very low. I
> will be away until approximately the end of the year, although i might
> show up at work part-time a bit before that (earliest in september).

We'll miss you Alex!  

> I'd like to also announce that Christian Neumair <cneumair@...> is
> now one of the Nautilus maintainers, having done lots of work on
> Nautilus in recent years. With him and Martin Wehner as maintainers
> besides me there should not be a problem getting releases and regular
> work going on when I'm away.

Congratulations, Christian!  An excellent choice.

Looking forward to the cool things this year with nautilus and the new backend.

sri
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[Mystilleef]

Alex,

Thanks for your work.

Cheers

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Alexander Larsson <alexl@...> wrote:

> Starting April 1st I will be on parental leave, this means I will have
>  little time for Gnome and software in general. Not zero, but very low. I
>  will be away until approximately the end of the year, although i might
>  show up at work part-time a bit before that (earliest in september).
>
>  However, there has been a bunch of excitement and people interested in
>  working on nautilus and gvfs these days (and we consider gnome-vfs a
>  dead end, so it'll just get maintainance updates from now on). So, while
>  I've been a large driver of these projects I don't think we really are
>  in such a bad position while I'm gone.
>
>  I'd like to also announce that Christian Neumair <cneumair@...> is
>  now one of the Nautilus maintainers, having done lots of work on
>  Nautilus in recent years. With him and Martin Wehner as maintainers
>  besides me there should not be a problem getting releases and regular
>  work going on when I'm away.
>
>  I've been the main code reviewer for Nautilus, and that is clearly not
>  gonna work when I'm away, so I'd like to propose a system of peer
>  review, so that each non-trivial patch that goes in at least got checked
>  over and tested by someone else. I don't know the best way to arrange
>  this, but my own preference is to handle patch reviewing on the mailing
>  list (as opposed to bugzilla). That way everyone sees the patch (more
>  eyes makes bugs more shallow) and everyone sees the feedback (and can
>  learn from it in the future. So, maybe just post patches to the mailing
>  list and wait for someone to review them.
>
>
>  --
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>  nautilus-list@...
>  http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
>

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[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen-2]

On 20/03/2008, Mystilleef <mystilleef@...> wrote:

Alex,

Thanks for your work.

Cheers


On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Alexander Larsson <alexl@...> wrote:
> Starting April 1st I will be on parental leave, this means I will have
>  little time for Gnome and software in general. Not zero, but very low. I
>  will be away until approximately the end of the year, although i might
>  show up at work part-time a bit before that (earliest in september).
>
>  However, there has been a bunch of excitement and people interested in
>  working on nautilus and gvfs these days (and we consider gnome-vfs a
>  dead end, so it'll just get maintainance updates from now on). So, while
>  I've been a large driver of these projects I don't think we really are
>  in such a bad position while I'm gone.
>
>  I'd like to also announce that Christian Neumair <cneumair@...> is
>  now one of the Nautilus maintainers, having done lots of work on
>  Nautilus in recent years. With him and Martin Wehner as maintainers
>  besides me there should not be a problem getting releases and regular
>  work going on when I'm away.
>
>  I've been the main code reviewer for Nautilus, and that is clearly not
>  gonna work when I'm away, so I'd like to propose a system of peer
>  review, so that each non-trivial patch that goes in at least got checked
>  over and tested by someone else. I don't know the best way to arrange
>  this, but my own preference is to handle patch reviewing on the mailing
>  list (as opposed to bugzilla). That way everyone sees the patch (more
>  eyes makes bugs more shallow) and everyone sees the feedback (and can
>  learn from it in the future. So, maybe just post patches to the mailing
>  list and wait for someone to review them.
>

I have a patch that will turn a folder icon into swimming Wanda the Fish[1] if you triple click it. I will post it to the list on April 2nd when Alex is out. Yeeehaw - party time!

And, Alex, enjoy you paternity leave :-)

Cheers,
Mikkel

[1]: Like the free-the-fish easter egg we all love

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