[Gardeners] CL Gardeners: good news, bad news, how to win big

[Erik Enge]

On 2/24/06, Nikodemus Siivola <nikodemus at random-state.net> wrote:
> Compromise at three months?

I'm going to have to email users at ... to see what they think.  They are
afterall the ones affected by this.

> Month can easily happen if the person is filtering project/lisp mail
> to a separate account or folder and is taking a hiatus, is on an
> extended vacation, or whatever.

Perhaps. I think a reasonable approach might be:

  - day 1: email admin at ... project-devel at ... and known-owner at ...
               and say you will be taking over the project in 30 days if
               noone objects
  - day 10: reminder
  - day 20: reminder
  - day 30: reminder
  - day 31: clnet admin replies with confirmation of new ownership

If, in that time, noone on the -devel list nor the owner replies the
project is either abondoned or it needs a new owner anyways, IMHO of
course.

I may even toss in there to add to the latest news (ie RSS ie planet
lisp) that takeover procedures have been initiated for that project.

> ...then again, if the policy is to give back the ownership to the
> original person, I don't see any great harm in being more impatient
> and leaving it at one month.

That's a great point.  I think probably the major motivation here is
to be able to apply patches and put out new releases.

Erik.