taking over maintainership of unicode (ucs) package
Wolfgang Jeltsch
Dominique Unruh is the official maintainer of the unicode LaTeX package (the
one you import with \usepackage{ucs}) currently. However, he is marked as
inactive on CTAN. On <http://www.unruh.de/DniQ/latex/unicode/>, he states:
> Due to time restrictions, I am not able to maintain this package anymore.
> New maintainer welcome.
I contacted him on November 13, 2009 via the e-mail address that is
mentioned in the LICENCE file of the unicode package. This was answered with
an automatically generated e-mail that told me his new address. So I resent
my e-mail to this new address immediately, asking him to hand over
maintainership to me. I got no reply from him until now.
As I understand the LPPL, I now have to announce my intent to take over
maintainership in this newsgroup, wait for three months and then become
maintainer in case nobody disagrees. Is this correct?
If yes, then I hereby announce that I want to become the new maintainer of
the LaTeX unicode package.
Best wishes,
Wolfgang
Will Robertson
> As I understand the LPPL, I now have to announce my intent to take over
> maintainership in this newsgroup, wait for three months and then become
> maintainer in case nobody disagrees. Is this correct?
Yes, that is correct.
> If yes, then I hereby announce that I want to become the new maintainer of
> the LaTeX unicode package.
Great! Unfortunately due to the 3 month limit you won't be able to
distribute updates to the package until almost March next year. If you
have changes in mind in the meantime, I recommend uploading new
versions to CTAN's experimental area (with a different package name
like "unicode-dev") until such time as you wish (or are able) to
replace the canonical version of the package on CTAN with your own.
Good luck,
Will
Donald Arseneau
> On 2009-11-26 07:57:25 +1030, Wolfgang Jeltsch <jelt...@tu-cottbus.de> said:
>
> > As I understand the LPPL, I now have to announce my intent to take over
> > maintainership in this newsgroup, wait for three months and then become
> > maintainer in case nobody disagrees. Is this correct?
>
> Yes, that is correct.
Weeelllll..... I don't think it is correct. The waiting period is
there for when
an author/maintainer disappears without turning over the software, but
in
this case I would read the statement "New maintainer welcome" as
turning over stewardship, thus removing the need for a waiting period.
It would probably be best to wait at least *some* time though.
Donald Arseneau
Heiko Oberdiek
> I recommend uploading new
> versions to CTAN's experimental area (with a different package name
> like "unicode-dev") until such time as you wish (or are able) to
> replace the canonical version of the package on CTAN with your own.
Whenever there is a new active maintainer,
PLEASE remove the line
\def\show#1?{\toks255{#1}\typeout{\the\toks255}}
from ucsencs.def. It's some leftover garbage from debugging.
Unhappily \show is usually a TeX primitive very useful for debugging
and its redefinition is quite a annoyance.
I had reported this to Dominik Unruh, he agrees, but didn't
want to release a new fixed version any more.
Yours sincerely
Heiko <ober...@uni-freiburg.de>
Robin Fairbairns
was that by email? if so, perhaps dominik could be alerted to
wolfgang's offer, and bless it so as to avoid the delay.
wolfgang, if you are "blessed", you can just go ahead (though it would
good for dominik to cc: ct...@dante.de in his message).
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge
Heiko Oberdiek
> Heiko Oberdiek <ober...@uni-freiburg.de> writes:
>
> >I had reported this to Dominik Unruh, he agrees, but didn't
> >want to release a new fixed version any more.
>
> was that by email?
Yes, some years ago: he answered 2009-01-29.
> if so, perhaps dominik could be alerted to
> wolfgang's offer, and bless it so as to avoid the delay.
Perhaps he is busy right now and couldn't answer yet.
Yours sincerely
Heiko <ober...@uni-freiburg.de>
Wolfgang Jeltsch
> Heiko Oberdiek <ober...@uni-freiburg.de> writes:
>> I had reported this to Dominik Unruh, he agrees, but didn't
>> want to release a new fixed version any more.
>
> was that by email? if so, perhaps dominik could be alerted to
> wolfgang's offer, and bless it so as to avoid the delay.
I have already mailed Dominique about 2 weeks ago, but he didn’t answer so
far. Maybe he is busy or my mail didn’t pass some spam filter.
> wolfgang, if you are "blessed", you can just go ahead (though it would
> good for dominik to cc: ct...@dante.de in his message).
I know.
Best wishes,
Wolfgang
Wolfgang Jeltsch
> Whenever there is a new active maintainer,
> PLEASE remove the line
> \def\show#1?{\toks255{#1}\typeout{\the\toks255}}
> from ucsencs.def. It's some leftover garbage from debugging.
> Unhappily \show is usually a TeX primitive very useful for debugging
> and its redefinition is quite a annoyance.
Okay, I’ll probably do this.
Best wishes,
Wolfgang
Wolfgang Jeltsch
Hello again, after a long time,
it seems that nobody has objected to my intend to become the new
maintainer of the unicode package. So I announce that I’m the new
maintainer of the unicode package.
More details will follow.
Best wishes,
Wolfgang
Robin Fairbairns
> On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:27:25 +0100, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
>> Dominique Unruh is the official maintainer of the unicode LaTeX package
>> (the one you import with \usepackage{ucs}) currently. However, he is
>> marked as inactive on CTAN. On
>>
>> <http://www.unruh.de/DniQ/latex/unicode/> ,
>>
>> he states:
>>
>>> Due to time restrictions, I am not able to maintain this package
>>> anymore. New maintainer welcome.
>>
>> I contacted him on November 13, 2009 via the e-mail address that is
>> mentioned in the LICENCE file of the unicode package. This was answered
>> with an automatically generated e-mail that told me his new address. So
>> I resent my e-mail to this new address immediately, asking him to hand
>> over maintainership to me. I got no reply from him until now.
>>
>> As I understand the LPPL, I now have to announce my intent to take over
>> maintainership in this newsgroup, wait for three months and then become
>> maintainer in case nobody disagrees. Is this correct?
>>
>> If yes, then I hereby announce that I want to become the new maintainer
>> of the LaTeX unicode package.
>
> Hello again, after a long time,
>
> it seems that nobody has objected to my intend to become the new
> maintainer of the unicode package. So I announce that I’m the new
> maintainer of the unicode package.
>
> More details will follow.
it would be useful for us, to have mail from you to ct...@dante.de,
repeating the above. the advantage is that, when we receive an update
for you, we've got something to reference (in our mail archive).
if anyone has contact with dominique unruh, it would be very good to
acquire from him the ucs.dtx that the ucs.sty (and presumably the
ucs.pdf) on the archive derive. [as a general rule, ctan would rather
not hold derived files -- documentation .pdf files apart.]
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge
my address is @cl.cam.ac.uk, regardless of the header. sorry about that.
Wolfgang Jeltsch
> Wolfgang Jeltsch <jel...@tu-cottbus.de> writes:
>
>> Hello again, after a long time,
>>
>> it seems that nobody has objected to my intend to become the new
>> maintainer of the unicode package. So I announce that I’m the new
>> maintainer of the unicode package.
>>
>> More details will follow.
>
> it would be useful for us, to have mail from you to ct...@dante.de,
> repeating the above. the advantage is that, when we receive an update
> for you, we've got something to reference (in our mail archive).
I’ve just sent an e-mail to <ct...@dante.de>.
> if anyone has contact with dominique unruh, it would be very good to
> acquire from him the ucs.dtx that the ucs.sty (and presumably the
> ucs.pdf) on the archive derive. [as a general rule, ctan would rather
> not hold derived files -- documentation .pdf files apart.]
The ucs.dtx file seems to be here:
<http://www.unruh.de/DniQ/latex/unicode/ucs/ucs.dtx>
I’ll soon update my repository to contain all the stuff from
<http://www.unruh.de/DniQ/latex/unicode/ucs/> that was not on CTAN.
Best wishes,
Wolfgang