[Slackbuilds-users] Ganglia and OpenMPI updates

[Emmanuel]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 4:41 AM, Matteo Bernardini <
matteo.bernardini at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2016-10-10 9:31 GMT+02:00 Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz at drabczyk.org>:
> > On 2016-10-09 14:38, Emmanuel wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I'm about to send an update package for OpenMPI (update to version
> >> 1.10.4 and with some modifications suggested by Kyle Guinn) and I'm
> >> preparing a SBo package for Ganglia and Ganglia-web.
> >>
> >> Ganglia was present in Slackbuilds up to 12.2, the maintainer was
> >> Cherife Li, does anyone knows if he is still active in the mailing
> >> list? Can I take over as the maintainer of the Ganglia package?
> >
> >
> > It would be good if you first tried to contact Cherife Li directly
> > outside of the mailing list and only when he confirms he doesn't
> > maintain the package anymore or does not reply within a reasonable
> > time frame you could step in as a new maintainer.  I did a couple of
> > times and people always replied.  Some of them don't use Slackware and
> > don't read this mailing list anymore.
>
> yes, this is, IMHO, the best path to follow to step in as a maintainer.
>
> but in this specific case, although a mail won't hurt, I think it's
> safe to say that Cherife is completely inactive from at least six
> years and an half
>
> https://slackbuilds.org/cgit/slackbuilds/log/?qt=author&q=cherife
>
> also other stuff that he was maintaining has already been inherited by
> other people so I'll say it's fine if you go with it.
>
>
Thanks for the reply, I will send an email to Cherife first and wait a
couple of days.

Regards





> Matteo
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