[Fontconfig] Time for a new maintainer

suzuki toshiya mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Fri Feb 17 11:41:36 PST 2012


It is good news that you have found a new expert for fontconfig maintenance.

Regards,
mpsuzuki

Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> It was about three years ago when I started chasing Keith Packard to review my
> git branch of fontconfig.  Eventually, I was transferred maintainership in
> June 2009 [1], moving my 190 commits into the upstream repo.  Past six months
> have felt like the same, except that Akira TAGOH has been chasing, and I've
> been promising reviews that never happen.
> 
> So, I believe it is time for me to step down and leave this baby in the
> capable hands of Akira.  I expect him to make a few mistakes here and there
> initially, like I did (hell, I made a few totally broken releases!), but I'm
> confident that this will bring some much-needed attention to fontconfig.
> 
> If I ever come back to fontconfig, it will be to rewrite it!
> 
> Akira, if you don't already have, please apply for fdo SSH access and
> fontconfig group membership.  You are the man now!
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> behdad
> 
> [1] http://mces.blogspot.com/2009/06/if-you-see-keith-packard-say-hello.html
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