[packagers] Re: retty - naming conflict in rpmforge

[Dag Wieers]

On Tue, 22 May 2007, Oliver Hitz wrote:

> On 21 May 2007, Stefan Radman wrote:
> > I am a user of RPMforge with an interest of using both packages and
> > would therefore like to propose that you rename your retty software to
> > something similar e.g. rettyd or remtty or rtty.
> > 
> > Such a step would help a larger community to a hazzle-free concurrent
> > use of both software packages.
> 
> There has never been a lot of interest in my program, and since I am not
> using it anymore myself, there has never been any never version. If you
> know of any user who uses the tool actively, I'll be glad to change the
> name, otherwise I propose we leave it as it is until somebody asks about
> it. What do you think?

Hey Oliver,

I think Stefan is the requesting party here :)

My opinion is that even when the program is currently no longer maintained 
(or lets call it 'finished'), people may want to extend it after your 
maintainership. For that reason it needs to be available.

Our current problem is that we cannot make it available as such, as we 
have another tool in the repository named retty v1.0.

So a rename of the tool (maybe 0.2 with just the rename), a new freshmeat 
announcement and maybe a statement on the website that you do no longer 
maintain it but anyone is free to take over maintainership or 
co-maintainership, is probably the best for the community in general.

Nobody is going to take interest in maintaining retty if it is not known.

PS Of course, for maintainership, you'd need to be a user. So Stefan would 
be a good candidate for maintainership. *hint* *hint* :)

Kind regards,
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