hijacking of some vim runtime files

Bram Moolenaar Bram at moolenaar.net
Mon Apr 17 13:12:42 UTC 2006


Stefano -

> Hi Bram,
>   attached you can find the version of runtime and translation files I'm
> proposing to be hijacked by Debian Vim Maintainers. This is the list:
> 
>   ./syntax/muttrc.vim
>   ./syntax/automake.vim
>   ./syntax/php.vim
>   ./syntax/slrnrc.vim
>   ./syntax/tpp.vim
>   ./lang/po/zh_TW.UTF-8.po
> 
>   ./syntax/debchangelog.vim    [1]
> 
> As already discussed with you, I'm proposing the hijacking after having
> tried to contact the corresponding maintainers several time for the
> inclusion of patches which have been wandering around in the vim Debian
> package for a long time. In most of the cases no answer have been
> received. In some cases answers have been received, but no action
> actually followed the answers. Since the deadline for updates in vim7 is
> April 20th I don't want to wait anymore. If in the future new/old
> maintainers will pop-up we will be happy to give away the maintenance.
> 
> Indeed, maintenance by Vim Maintainers will be Best Effort and we will
> mainly only include patches from our users. I therefore added the
> following disclaimer at the beginning of each file:
> 
>   " XXX This file is in need of a new maintainer, Debian VIM Maintainers ma=
> intain
>   "     it only because patches have been submitted for it by Debian users =
> and the
>   "     former maintainer was MIA (Missing In Action), taking over its
>   "     maintenance was thus the only way to include those patches.
>   "     If you care about this file, and have time to maintain it please do=
>  so!
> 
> Please include them in the next snapshot of vim7.
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> Cheers.
> 
> [1] This file is a bit different from the other, the former maintainer
>     was a former Debian Vim Maintainer and the syntax is Debian related.
>     We will be happy to officially keep maintenance of it since we have
>     know-how and interest in doing so.

All looks fine to me.  I'll include the files.  Thanks!

- Bram

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