Re: Is Xfburn currently maintained?

Hunter Turcin <[email protected]> Sun, 16 Oct 2022 13:29:04 -0500
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.desktop.xfce.devel.version4
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Thank you very much! I'll start looking through the open issues and
merge requests soon.

On Sat, 2022-10-08 at 20:03 +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi Hunter,
> I think it's safe to say Xfburn is unmaintained by now, I'm going to
> give you Developer permissions, low hanging fruits you can merge
> yourself, more complex stuff feel free to ask me to review. When you
> have enough things for a release also poke me :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Andre Miranda
> 
> Oct 7, 2022, 03:58 by [email protected]:
> > Hello folks,
> > 
> > I am an occassional contributor to the Xfce project, poking my head
> > in
> > about once every few months to submit a code change, file an issue,
> > or
> > say something on one of the mailing lists. Xfburn is my preferred
> > optical disc burning utility. About a year and a half ago, I
> > submitted
> > a merge request (!11) to fix an issue reported near the start of
> > last
> > year (#40). Since then, there have been two other merge requests
> > opened
> > by another author and multiple seemingly-unacknowledged issues,
> > including one inquiring about when the next release would happen
> > (#43).
> > 
> > While there has been work committed to the main branch in this
> > timeframe, the work seems to be limited to items that do not
> > concern
> > the actual application code:
> > 
> > - translations
> > - build script fixes
> > - updating COPYING
> > - updating project URL
> > 
> > I enjoy using Xfburn over any other optical disc burning utility,
> > and I
> > find myself using it at least a few times every month, which I know
> > is
> > far more often than someone should be burning discs in 2022 :), but
> > I
> > enjoy collecting and messing around with computers from the late
> > 1990s,
> > so Xfburn gets regular use whenever I need to burn a bootable CD or
> > DVD. It would be a shame if this program withered away.
> > 
> > Has Xfburn had a maintainer over the past year and a half, and if
> > not,
> > is there a process I could follow to volunteer to take on this
> > role?
> > While I don't have much experience maintaining open-source
> > projects, I
> > think it would improve the current state of affairs, and I would be
> > willing to pass on the role to anyone more suited to it if someone
> > better appears (or the original maintainer returns).
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Hunter Turcin
> 
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