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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:04:58PM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
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> On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > first of all thanks for voting me in again as grimoire lead, I'll give
> > my best.
> > Here's a list of items that need to be looked at by every section
> > maintainer:
> > - all spells in your section should use config_query for persistent
> >  choices
> > - all variables used in spells should be declared local to the file
> >  they're in
> > - convert at least all the easy spells to BUILD_API=2 (i.e. those that
> >  don't need any changes besides the BUILD_API=2 line)
> > As usual, the first priority is bugfixes, second priority to me are
> > those items above, spell updates come in third.
> > I'd like to ask all section maintainers to take a look at these items
> > and send me a short mail about what needs to be done and when you plan
> > to do it (or if you want help with it) until the next weekend.
> > For the unmaintained sections, volunteers are needed. Please do that
> > explicitly by mail or irc to me, so I can help coordinate if multiple
> > people want to look at the same section.
> >
> > I'm also looking for someone willing to take a closer look at what needs
> > to be done with prometheus to get it working with current stable and
> > devel sorcery branches again. Since p4 is down right now, I can't give a
> > link to it (and I don't have it in my workspace yet), but it's mostly
> > written in bash and expect if I'm not mistaken.
> 
> I'll volunteer to go through the libs section for now, and once that's
> finished I'll see what other unmaintained sections still need help. ;)

Thanks.

> Does your list sound like it can be done by the end of July?
 
- bugs: probably, haven't had time to take a closer look at those yet
- prometheus: depends on when there's a volunteer for it
- config_query and local variables: yes, though I still don't have all
  info from all section gurus, but that should definitely be doable

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