376542 - Contributor desires access to abandoned add-on (rimwheel)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Administration, enhancement)

Description

[George A. Booth]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

I am the active contributer ( project lead? ) to rimwheel. I have posted a pair of  new versions to rimwheel.mozdev.org.

I was granted access by mozdev, as the owner Aki Goto ( Harpy ) could not be contacted. All correspondence pertaining is appended.

First, according to harpy's profile at AMO, it looks like he made contact with you on March 5, 2007. If you have means to contact him, please have him e-mail me. <[e-mail]>.

Second, I'd like to have the latest version of rimwheel available on AMO, but I don't have access to make those changes. May I have access to the rimwheel site <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1874> to make those changes, or would you do that for me?

Finally, a vanity issue. I want my name out front on my work. Within the next three planned versions, all of Aki Goto's code will be gone. Can I get ownership of rimwheel, or should I simply start a new project?

Thank you for your attention,

Reverse chronological correspondence follows:

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From: George Booth <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: rimwheel
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:55:25 -0500
To: David Boswell <[e-mail]>

I am interested in taking over the rimwheel project.

Thank you,

Really, thank you.


On Mar 27, 2007, at 8:36 AM, David Boswell wrote:

> George,
>
> It has been a week and there has been no response from the project
> owner.  Let me know if you are still interested in taking this project
> over and I'll get you set up.
>
> David
>
>
>>
>> Appended you can find the correspondence I has had regarding rimwheel
>>
>> missing only
>> the first email I sent requesting help understanding some of your
>> coding decisions.
>>
>> This is my first public effort at software development. I haven't had
>>
>> to address issues of
>> other people's interests before. I want to be fair and respectful to
>>
>> all concerned here.
>>
>> Please, respond.

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Appended you can find the correspondence I has had regarding rimwheel  
missing only
the first email I sent requesting help understanding some of your  
coding decisions.

This is my first public effort at software development. I haven't had  
to address issues of
other people's interests before. I want to be fair and respectful to  
all concerned here.

Please, respond.

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> From: David Boswell <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Re: [Admin] abandoned project: rimwheel
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> George,
>
> If you are interested in taking over an abandoned project, please  
> email
> the project owner and copy me on that message.  If there is no  
> response
> within a week, I can make you the new owner.  At that point, you will
> have CVS access to the project's repository and can update the code.
>
> As for questions about the license, all project code on the site is
> licensed under the MPL unless otherwise stated on the project page or
> in the project code.  You can read more about this at
>
> http://www.mozdev.org/copyright.html
>
> David
>
>
> > I have been working on fixing rimwheel ( little things - created a
> > chrome.manifest, changed some of the functions ) and I'd like to
> > submit them.
> >
> > Unfortunately, Mr. Goto < [e-mail] >  hasn't
> > answered to the pair of e-mails I have sent so far. He had 3
> > extensions going and made his last commit to mozless 6 months ago <
> > http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/mozless/src/ >.
> >
> > None of his work makes mention of any kind of license or copyright.
> > The only extension that has any kind of license mentioned is xscroll
> >
> > < http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/xscroll/src/xscroll/content/
> > xscrollOverlay.xul?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup >, an
> > MPL from the original developer, hachiro <[e-mail]>
> >
> > I am going to continue to e-mail Mr. Goto, but in the absence of any
> >
> > reply, is there anyway I could post the changes I've made?
> >
> > Thank you for your attention,
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Admin mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/admin
> >
>
>


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> From: George Booth <[e-mail]>
> Subject: rimwheel ...
> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:35:23 -0500
>
> I have made a few changes - compatibility with the newest version of
> Firefox and such - to rimwheel.
>
> I'd like to post them as a contributer to your project.
>

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> From: George Booth <[e-mail]>
> Subject: rimwheel
> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 18:20:44 -0600
>
> Dear Sir,
>
>       I obviously spent many hours studying your code, for I was too
> confused and tired at the end to notice that XUL hasn't any logical
> controls. Please ignore my question regarding the advantages of
> javascript.
>
>      Thank you for taking the time to read this, and thank you again
> for Rimwheel.
>
> Sincerely,
>




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1874
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Actual Results:  
no results

Expected Results:  
New versions of the addon posted

On request.

Comment 1

[George A. Booth]

I was told on the #addons irc channel that Shaver could make a decision on this. I don't see him CC:'d above.

I don't know if this is significant.

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

It's a valid *request* at least, though I'm not sure if it'll be granted - that's not my place to decide. Confirming.