I was going to respond to the bug, but I think it's best if we take this 
private for now.  This has been on my mind for a while now.  I think 
Terminator is a fantastic program but it is in real danger of being 
bitrotted away and becoming un-useable.  I have been seriously thinking 
that it would be a good idea if I were to fork the repository into 
github and call the new package python3-terminator.  I'm very glad to 
see other people have been thinking along the same lines.  I'm a little 
wary of taking on the maintainership myself as I don't really know the 
gobject api very well, but it seems to have come to that point.  I would 
be eternally grateful for a little help in getting the process going and 
some ongoing maintainership.   I'm not sure where to start right now.

Grandma, would you be willing to take on a maintainership?  The work 
you've done on the python3 branch has been a life-saver and has allowed 
me to continue using terminator on fedora.

Matt



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Bug 1662544] Re: Port Terminator to Python3
Date: 2019-10-22 04:03
 From: Egmont Koblinger <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Reply-To: Bug 1662544 <email address hidden>

Thanks!

Taking a look at the broader picture:

A few years ago (during the GTK3 porting) I talked to Stephen in private
mail, and it happened that we hit a tiny little bit more
informal/personal tone than usual in professional environments. Thanks
to this, I felt that after seeing him completely disappear, I should
send him a mail going like "hey, how are you doing, I hope everything is
fine" and nothing more, which I did this July. I didn't get a response
either.

I'm afraid we can't exclude the possibility that he won't (can't) come
back to this project any more. Grandma, MattRose, others, I think you
should start thinking whether you wish to take on this project. You
might ask Launchpad folks to grant you access to the repository (I don't
know how it goes), or contact the project's previous maintainer Chris,
or fork it (maybe even moving to github/gitlab or whatever, maybe
slightly rebranding e.g. as terminator3), preferably in a way that more
than 1 person has admin access.

There are quite a few other pending bugs, some of them are really low-
hanging fruit (fixable in a minute or two), e.g. multiple reports about
feed_child() taking the wrong number of parameters, or one about GTK no
longer supporting narrow vs. wide pane separators, or revealing the new
features of recent VTEs. Maybe it's your turn now to decide whether you
focus solely on Python3 and nothing more, or start making some fixes
like these, or even do an entire takeover of the project and give it a
big boost (which many people would surely welcome and appreciate).

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Title:
   Port Terminator to Python3

Status in Terminator:
   In Progress

Bug description:
   Python2 is starting to fall out of favour slightly (i.e. not included
   by default on some distros).

   It is time we moved away from the old version, and onto Python3.

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