Re: future of the mediawiki extension?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 31, 2017, 05:23 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqh8uf28m2.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <87mv487rc6.fsf@curie.anarc.at>

Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> writes:

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> On 2017-10-30 11:29:55, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>>> It should also be mentioned that this contrib isn't very active: I'm not
>>> part of the GitHub organization, yet I'm probably the one that's been
>>> the most active with patches in the last year (and I wasn't very active
>>> at all).
>>
>> FYI, I'm no longer using Mediawiki as much as I did, and I don't really
>> use Git-Mediawiki anymore.
>>
>> The main blocking point to revive Git-Mediawiki is to find a new
>> maintainer (https://github.com/Git-Mediawiki/Git-Mediawiki/issues/33). I
>> believe I just found one ;-).
>
> Eh. I assume you mean me here. As I hinted at in another thread, I am
> not sure I can commit to leading the project - just scratching an
> itch. But I may be able to review pull requests and make some releases
> from time to time... I probably won't work on code or features I don't
> need unless someone funds my work or something. ;)
>
> We'll see where the community takes us, I guess... Always better to have
> more than one maintainer, anyways, just for the bus factor... Worst
> case, I'll delegate to a worthy successor. :)

Heh, when you are talking about going from effectively 0 to 1 (or a halftime), you are way too early to worry about the bus factor ;-)