On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Pavel Bucek <Pavel.Bucek_at_sun.com> wrote:
> On 7/19/10 9:56 AM, Aleksei Valikov wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>>
>>> You can fork them and then release from the forks,
>>>
>>
>> I have the required role sin rngom, xsom, istack and codemodel - the
>> only project where I'm missing a dev role is dtd-parser.
>> Forking to SVN (for instance) and releasing from there is an option,
>> but I think it would be better if I "refresh" old projects instead.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> ... or you can ask him for help. He's very responsive.
>>>
>>
>> Somehow I don't manage to get to him. My mails just don't get
>> delivered for some reason:
>>
>> Your message cannot be delivered to the following recipients:
>>
>> Recipient address: @sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com:Kohsuke.Kawaguchi_at_sun.com
>> Original address: Kohsuke.Kawaguchi_at_sun.com
>> Reason: Remote SMTP server has rejected address
>> Diagnostic code: smtp;550 5.1.1
>> <@sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com:Kohsuke.Kawaguchi_at_sun.com>... User unknown
>> Remote system: dns;sunmail6brm.central.sun.com
>> (TCP|129.146.11.74|63553|129.147.4.169|25)
>>
>
> Kohsuke is no longer employed by Sun/Oracle, see
> http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2010/04/05/good-bye-sunoracle
>
> I guess kk_at_kohsuke.org (mentioned in that article) should work.
Yes, and if anyone has trouble reaching Kohsuke, I think there are
many list members who can help -- given how high email volume he is
probably getting (for Hudson and other high profile projects), it is
quite possible that some emails from previously unknown developers
fall through the cracks.
I would second Benson's suggestion of initial "fork" (or maybe it
should be called branch); github is great for this, for example.
As long as original author and community are kept in loop (best
effort, of course), everybody will be happy. This is roughly how
Multi-Schema Validator is being moved to Github (although in this case
Kohsuke directly worked on getting it done from beginning).
Btw: one minor issue with github and some other source code
repositories is that they don't have integrated maven publishing
functionality.
But this can be worked around by using Sonatype's free (for OSS) maven
repisitories.
-+ Tatu +-
ps. I can try to help with dtd-validator piece if there are issues
(please email me directly if so)