Hi Bèr<br><br>(NOTE: you probably remember me from posting some code on Flexinode area)<br><br>As some people know, two month ago I pushed the number of bugs/features within 4.6 from 8 pages to 2. I was a quite bit annoyed that some of the patches and questions were not being address by senior developers.
<br><br>I also have too many drupal 4.6 sites with custom code to upgrade them to drupal 5 (for me 4.7 was a really bad release, that I decided not to use), and I have in the present moment 8 projects to be worked, where at least 4 will still be done with
4.6<br><br>This means that I have time to test patches, and backport some code from newer releases to 4.6 (for example, I made some hacks to contact.module to have a captcha, or even I made some hacks to have contact.module
work with i18n)<br><br>I know I am not the best person to maintain a release for two factors:<br>* I do not have the best english to describe, explain and argument (and a person should have a good english to make a point)
<br>* I am not in the level like chx, Bèr, Killes, beginner or others. I know that I have still too much to learn to have strength to maintain a release like 4.6 (the most stable and complete release so far)<br><br>I want to help:
<br>* checking and testing patches<br>* backporting some features that I really needed<br>* try to optimize the 4.6 version where it can be done: for example 4.6 does not run with mysql 5 and I really don't know why; or it still has cache problems, that some other people still report against about
4.7 and 5.<br><br>Best regards,<br> Fernando Silva<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bèr Kessels</b> <<a href="mailto:ber@webschuur.com">ber@webschuur.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2006 15:33, schreef Dries Buytaert:<br>> As of Drupal 4.7, each release cycle will have a dedicated
<br>> maintainer. Gerhard maintains Drupal 4.7, Neil will maintain Drupal <br>> 5.0, and I'm on the outlook for a Drupal 6.0 maintainer.<br><br>This is not an official proposition yet :). I need to give it more thoughts.
<br><br>But Heine and chx asked me if I am interested in maintaing 4-6, which am,<br>since I run about 7 sites on 4.6 wich I dont want to upgrade (I don't have a<br>reason to, but thats a whole different story). I have a hosting platform
<br>where I still run 4.6, untill the owners have budget to upgrade these sites,<br>so I 'need' 4.6 rather often.<br><br>Hence I started <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-4-6-maintainance">http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-4-6-maintainance
</a><br><br>I wouldn't mind becoming the maintainer for 4.6, especially if there are<br>enough people willin to carry that version together. But biggest issue is<br>that my plate is full, too full. So in the case that I were to maintain this
<br>version (I am by far not sure if I am deemed the right person first of all!),<br>I'd need to drop at least half of my contribs (approx 8); most notably<br>flexinode. And I would most probably need to hand over maintainance for
<br><a href="http://themes.drupal.org">themes.drupal.org</a> to someone else. I think we should continue this particular<br>fork in the discussion on infrastructure. :) I am not yet askig anyone to<br>volunteer for taking over any of the above-mentioned though :), lets first
<br>see what needs be done first :)<br><br>Also, I would like to know:<br> Are there more people willing to spend less-voluntary time on 4.6<br>maintainance. It's really not much, but we would need hands and eyes in case<br>
of sec. holes found. I am not 100% available for Drupal. Sometimes gone for<br>days or weeks (deadlines and stuff).<br> Are there more people willing to randomly eyeball patches. And/or backport<br>patches. It makes little sense to maintain a
4.6 branch if no-one is actually<br>doing that maintainance.<br> Are there more people interested in a maintained Drupal 4.6 in<br>general. 'Being interested' meaning: yes I still run it, and would be happy<br>if its maintained somewhere.
<br><br>Bèr<br>--<br> [ Bèr Kessels | Drupal services <a href="http://www.webschuur.com">www.webschuur.com</a> ]<br><br>Drupal repareert drie lekken, waarvan één kritiek:<br> <a href="http://help.sympal.nl/drupal_repareert_drie_lekken_waarvan_een_kritiek">
http://help.sympal.nl/drupal_repareert_drie_lekken_waarvan_een_kritiek</a><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>