On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] <olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov> wrote:
It seems to have been overly ambitious to find both a new host and a new maintainter for the time zone stuff at the same time. So, one thing at a time. Who has insights on a workable options for new host(s) for the mailing list and the software distribution?
Getting the source into a publicly discoverable revision control system is a good start to bringing in new maintainers. I work for Canonical on the launchpad.net project, which provides free revision control (Bazaar), mailing lists, issue tracking, review processes, release downloads etc. for open source projects. Launchpad is one of a number of suitable options. Apart from hosting numerous 'upstream' open source products, it is used to build, track and translate Ubuntu. I'm happy to do the setup and help maintain or hand over the keys. But like I said - one of a number of options. Unless you can find someone suitable to anoint as your successor, I suspect your going to need to setup some sort of committee empowered to keep the 'official' project going when you become unwilling or unable to do so. Easiest way could be to hand things over to the Free Software Foundation, ISO, IEEE, Unicode, Debian but I know little of that. -- Stuart Bishop <stuart@stuartbishop.net> http://www.stuartbishop.net/