Re: Job spec of a port maintainer

On 22 Oct, dsilvers wrote:
> > Is there a definition somewhere of what's involved?
>
> As this is open-source/free-software work there's rarely anything written
> down.
>
> My understanding of a port maintainer (for us at least) would be someone
> who can commit to being around on-channel at least a bit; is competent in
> the use of, and development of, applications on their target system, can
> respond in a timely fashion to tickets, ideally within a few days even if
> only to say thanks, I need to think about this; and will jump on front-end
> failures evident in the CI system within a day or two at most.
>
> Ideally they'd also be interested in learning about and assisting with the
> core of the NetSurf codebase, and also our libraries; since all ports rely
> on those to a greater or lesser extent.

That's a very useful outline, thanks (sorry about the slow reply, I messed up
the mail filter and it binned all your replies).

> > I went ahead and wrote patches for
> >
> > http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2266
> > http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2170
> > http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2336
> > http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2289
>
> Thank you. Hopefully Dave Higton may get to these, he has been invaluable
> recently :-)

It sounds like Dave H might be about to put his hand up as a RISC OS
maintainer then!

I can keep an eye on the tickets too, I've put the build environment on my
laptop so along with RPCEmu can pick over things when stuck on a train.
However, I'm not sure developing the core code/being on IRC is something I
can juggle as well, so some kind of job share might work better,
Sprow.