Hi Tomas,
As a general rule, to get requests more quickly processed, it's better to give/remind context. The more the better...
It's definitely probably applicable to some other requests here from time to time.
To remind the general requirements: to become maintainer (and you're warmly welcome to it, thanks again), one has to show that:
- the plugin seems indeed to be lacking an active maintainer ;
- [s]he's tried to contact existing/previous maintainers.
- And that the time has already been long enough to give room for those people to answer.
- if applicable, reminding the plugin is already marked with the "adopt-this-plugin". For example to clarify why there would be nobody in CC, see the next line.
- provide as much as possible explanation *upfront* for any weirdness that the people like me are going to ask themselves about, see below.
As one of the people processing those emails on my free time, here's why I didn't immediately do it and went to my next pressing thing when I saw your email, because yes I saw it previously: here's what I thought and hadn't time to check the link:
"OK, he's asking to become the maintainer of some plugin, but there's nobody in CC. No explanation at all, I'll see it later"
Then, I saw it again, and clicked on the link, where I saw you seemed to be the last active maintainer. So I thought:
"WAT?!" :-)
And now I've got a bit more time to send that email for your request and in general, I can ask those questions.
If you had upfront clarified that you *were already* the last maintainer, and you somehow managed to lost access, and would like to get granted that and so on. We would most probably have all saved time :-). Add the link to the previous apparently only partly done request, and so on. If it's 'just' that you're unable to release, say it so too. You told apparently a bit more things in the last email.
So, I just re-set you as committer on that GH repo just in case. I also made you the lead of that plugin.
Thank you