Re: NonGNU ELPA: taking over/forking ws-butler

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

Hello again,

On Thu 17 Oct 2024 at 02:17pm -04, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> I wrote the following e-mail to Le Wang a fortnight ago and have
>> received no response.  And he has not been active on github, where
>> ws-butler was developed, in some years.
>
> Sadly, nowadays many people don't read their email or don't reply.
> [ IME, more and more people use their email account only as a kind of
>   authenticator for 2FA or password recovery. 🙁  ]
> [ Also, sometimes they just change their email address.  ]
>
> I'd recommend you open a (very short and focused) issue on the upstream
> Github about this, asking for help contacting him, in case he does read
> that, or in case someone else reads that who knows another way to
> reach him.
>
> BTW, https://github.com/lewang suggests he contributed to something(?)
> over there recently (on Sept 25).
>
>>> Stefan, do you think it would be okay if I go ahead and essentially
>>> fork it by maintaining it out of nongnu-elpa.git?
>
> Changing the upstream (to `nongnu.git` or anywhere else) due to a new
> maintainership is fine, yes.
>
> But of course doing it without the former maintainer's consent is not ideal.
> I think it deserves waiting a bit more than a fortnight.

An update here.  Posting a GitHub issue worked, in that I got a brief
reply, but haven't heard back properly.  So I guess I wait another month
since that last reply and take it over.

  <https://github.com/lewang/ws-butler/issues/52#issuecomment-2461328652>

-- 
Sean Whitton