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Alec Warner wrote: |
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> So we created this awesome alias to put ebuilds that need a maintainer. |
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> Good idea at the time, decent idea still. The problem? We have nearly |
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> 2000 open bugs assigned to maintainer-wanted[1]. I would like to |
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> discuss policy on these. Do we keep them, do we get a group of people |
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> to slowly review and discard them? Do we mind having a ton of things |
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> open like this (a quasi-ebuild db of sorts). Is bugs the right place |
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> for this sort of thing, or can we improve somewhere/how? |
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Discarding them seems not like a good idea to me. I think they are |
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interesting for many users who want to use the software that lacks an |
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ebuild. Also some contributors have invested a lot of time in it. |
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I think those should all be available within an overlay: overlays.gentoo.org |
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There they are downloadable, improveable and we do not turn contributors |
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away by "WONTFIX". Additionally we will not get many dupes once we close an |
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ebuild contribution. People who file ebuild requests have not contributed |
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anything, so I think those can easily be marked as WONTFIX :) |
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Probably it makes sense to have such an overlay on gentooexperimental.org |
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for the time being. So that we can start reducing the 2000 bugs in bugzilla |
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Regards, |
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Stefan |
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