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I want to become the owner of project Kicad.

Asked by Dick Hollenbeck

I am one of 3 admins for this Kicad project at sourceforge.net

You can verify this at:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/kicad/

In an unauthorised way, we had a guy named manveru setup this project here at launchpad about 6 months ago. We had not yet reached consensus to move, and his efforts were rogue and unauthorised. Since then I have implemented a vote and have authority to setup this project now, since I am an existing ADMIN for it at sourceforge.net.

Sourceforge.net has been getting slower and slower, and we want to use bazaar, and the UI at launchpad. Please establish me as project owner. You can send me an email at <email address hidden> to verify identity.

Had the project really been deleted as we requested six months ago, I would have been able to establish it anew now.

So your help is appreciated.

Dick Hollenbeck

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Данило Шеган (danilo) said : 		#1

Hi, registering an account in Launchpad has already required that you verify your email so that part is not needed. I've also verified that you are indeed the upstream developer, so it's all good from the permissions side of things.

For reference, the project that needs reassigning is https://launchpad.net/kicad/

I'll also contact Manveru about the change. Also note that Launchpad allows community users to set-up projects on Launchpad if they want to get benefits of Launchpad when projects don't want to move (i.e. they can start using bzr branches by setting up a simple import). However, when projects are interested in moving or taking control of their Launchpad page, we're more than happy to oblige.

I believe it'll take someone with admin privileges to do the change however, so please wait until that's done.

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Данило Шеган (danilo) said : 		#2

Btw, you can also try contacting Manveru directly if that ends up being faster.

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Dick Hollenbeck (dickelbeck) said : 		#3

You have lost track of the fact that Manveru asked you to delete the project six months ago, and he did this at my request.

So if I were to contact Manveru now, what specifically would I ask him?

Dick

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Manveru (manveru) said : 		#4

https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/86151

This is the original question where I asked for removal. And it was done. Now the project has returned. And I do not why. This is not my fault that something was told and not done or undone by some backup restoration.

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Данило Шеган (danilo) said : 		#5

Manveru, Dick, sorry for the confusion: we do not really delete projects — we only disable them. The best way forward here is probably for Manveru to reassign maintainer and driver to a new KiCad teams and/or Dick: Manveru, you can do that using https://launchpad.net/kicad/+edit-people

If you still want us to take any administrative action, please let me know, but if the two of you are in agreement, then you can do it all without our intervention.

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Manveru (manveru) said : 		#6

This has been done now. Sorry everyone concerned about the latency, but I had limited access to my laptop for last couple of days. I hope now Dick is satisfied.

I am switching maintainer of KiCad developers group to Dick, too.

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