Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 03:49:24 +0200 From: Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Going to reset maintainership/cease development for gtk-qt-engine, py-qt, py-kde, kbtv in a while. Who wants to take over? Message-ID: <200608060349.24597.danny@ricin.com>
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Dear FreeBSD porters, hackers, users, Due to changing circumstances in my life and the expectation that in the near future I won't be able to have enough time/energy to work on my ports, or even run FreeBSD on a desktop system that I can use frequently enough to stay in touch, I have decided that it would be wise to give up my maintainership and responsibilities for the ports I maintain, as well as the development and maintainership of kbtv. I'd rather do it now, while everything is in a up-to-date and working state, then at a time when things may have already gotten b0rken. I'm currently maintaining the x11-themes/gtk-qt-engine port which has recently been updated and which can be taken over by someone else in a snap. I'm also maintaining the interrelated combination of devel/py-sip, x11-toolkits/qscintilla, x11-toolkits/py-qt, and x11-toolkits/py-kde. I strongly advise anyone who wants to take over either of them to take all four. They belong together and have a common upstream. Please be advised that PyQt4 is already released upstream and once KDE4 is a fact of life there's going to be a bumpy ride to get everything upto current at that time, I expect. So be prepared for that (it's still too soon to roll in py-qt4 at this moment). Finally, I maintain the port and am the author of multimedia/kbtv. I hope someone wants to continue its development and maintainership. It probably needs some more work with the saa driver and with the non-GUI modules to make it more general to work with different hardware (think: hooks to dbus/hal ultimately), currently bktr, saa, pwc. Also, come KDE4 it will need to adapt the GUI code to py-qt4/py-kde4. On the bright side, it now supports at least two different type of analog TV cards. No other *BSD app does. It's worthwhile to have end-user software that supports saa based cards, rather than only bktr (which is a horror). I'm willing to transfer/share copyright if that should be an issue. At the very least, parts of kbtv can be a nice starting point for a new app with perhaps a broader scope and perhaps a more skilled and less lazy developer. Taking over would also mean, in time, hosting the tarball/website. But it's no problem keeping that where it is for a while. I'm planning to reset maintainership of the ports come October/November 2006 but I hope that won't be needed. It has been a pleasure -- though sometimes one with headaches :) -- to work on improving the FreeBSD/KDE desktop experience, and I have learnt a lot (*) and hope my contributions have been useful. This is a hard decision but I have to make it sooner or later, and sooner is better. (*) One good idea is to not have your first ever coding in C involve video capturing ;-) Wishing all of you all the best, Dan
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