Re: Formally stepping down as maintainer for "ga" package

[Olaf Till]

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 11:35:45PM +0200, Kai Torben Ohlhus wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 12:39 AM Luca Favatella <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Years ago I planted the "ga" package as part of a University project
> > though I have not actually maintained it so I would like to formally
> > step down as maintainer.
> >
> > I see myself listed as maintainer at
> > https://octave.sourceforge.io/ga/index.html
> > I would be grateful if you removed me as maintainer from there. If you
> > pointed me to how to do so (I expect in this case I would need some
> > credentials ...) I would be happy to. Please feel free to unlist the
> > package if easier.
> >
> > I had thought I would have eventually found time to get back to it
> > though I was wrong.
> >
> > Thanks and regards
> > Luca
> >
> >
> Dear Luca,
> 
> Thank you for sharing your "ga" package with us.  It is likely, that your
> request of being removed from the OF-website gets lost on this
> mailing-list.  I am not involved into OF yet, but if you are one of the
> members [1], you might be able to create a ticket [2] so your request is
> not forgotten.
> 
> Best regards,
> Kai
> 
> [1] https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/_members/
> [2] https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/package-releases/

Well, I've set the package to 'unmaintained' now... There were a few
commits since the last release (2012), but no release. If anyone has a
good reason to object to the change, I'll revert it.

Luca, this means that no link to this package is listed anymore by our
website. However, as for the other unmaintained packages, the packages
index page can still be reached by its URL. I wouldn't change the
index page, since it truely states that you had been the maintainer of
this (old) release. If this should be a problem for you, there is the
possibility to remove the packages index page entirely (if nobody
objects to it for some good reason).

Olaf

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