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On Wed, 2019-03-27 at 12:18 -0700, Matt Turner wrote: |
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> On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 10:04 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> > The samba project will most likely be disbanded shortly. While |
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> > the current project members may stay as fallback maintainers, |
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> > the following packages (being part of the Samba stack) would really use |
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> > new, dedicated maintainers: |
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> I understand disbanding projects when they're really just the old |
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> "herd" concept, but this actually looks like a coherent set of |
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> packages that a project should maintain. I don't see a bug about |
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> disbanding samba. What's the rationale? |
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The project's developers are no longer interested in maintaining those |
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packages, and we're checking if people would be interested in some of |
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them. It's better to have a few disjoint maintainers than no |
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maintainers at all. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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