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Monday, 26. November 2007, Markus Ullmann Ви написали: |
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> Robin H. Johnson schrieb: |
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> > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 10:46:12AM +0100, Markus Ullmann wrote: |
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> > d) In addition to c), keep them open, flagged with sunrise in the status |
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> > board, so that when a developer does want some package not in the |
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> > tree, they can search first. |
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> That's done already |
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So what's the problem? |
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The only onse where there is a valid issue, I think, are the ones where |
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upstream has gone missing or no longer supports the package. (Even "better |
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alternatives" thing is questionable IMHO. There are always people who have a |
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different idea of better :)). These can be dealt with by having a dedicated |
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force, perhaps comprised of people most annoyed by these bugs ;), who would |
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simply scan the bugzilla for maintainer-wanted bugs, check the upstream and, |
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if it is dead, close the bug with INVALID and a note of a dead upstream.. |
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> > e) Encourage existing developers to review and commit this stuff more |
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> > often. |
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> That would be the best option |
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Except the issue with all these packages is not committing but maintaining |
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them. Sure, we could go on a committing spree and never touch any of these |
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packages again. We even had such a situation at one point (rather long time |
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ago) and it is specifically discouraged now. |
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The "really best" option would be recruiting new devs so that we have enogh |
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people to maintain everything and add more, as was already suggested. This in |
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fact does happen, it is just that the rate of new joins cannot be infinite |
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plus we seem to experience our growing pains periodically.. |
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George |
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