Re: [ANNOUNCE] Sharness v1.0.0

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 14, 2016, 21:13 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD2wT0Qoxksza1uU1GMTWRD4GcfdYzDTrNh+JLtfT9h3rA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Christian Couder
> <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sharness was first announced on this list in July 2012 [4]. It was
>> created from Git's test lib in April 2011 by Mathias Lafeldt who
>> improved and maintained it until a few days ago.
>>
>> Thanks a lot Mathias!
>
> Thanks for picking up the work, Christian!
>
> Is there any word out there from Mathias on making you the designated
> new maintainer? (I cannot tell if this is a genuine maintainer change, or
> a [hostile] fork by reading this email, and I don't know much of the context,

Mathias gave me commiter rights on the repo (https://github.com/mlafeldt/sharness at that time) one year ago.

A few days ago, as I wanted since last December to release v1.0.0, but was uneasy to do so without at least a LGTM from him, I contacted him by private email and he decided to transfer the repo to https://github.com/chriscool/sharness, to give me maintainership and to step down completely. So yeah this is a genuine maintainer change and not an hostile fork at all. (I cc'ed Mathias again so he can confirm if he wants.)

> as I did not know git Git test suite was a stand alone thing)

I am not sure it qualifies as a stand alone thing there are some differences and for now some features are going from Git's test-lib.sh into Sharness but not the other way around.