Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-needed@ packages need you!

[J. Roeleveld]

On Saturday, August 30, 2014 04:51:35 PM Michał Górny wrote:
> Dnia 2014-08-30, o godz. 14:35:20
>
> "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org> napisał(a):
> > On Saturday, August 30, 2014 01:46:20 PM Michał Górny wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Right now, we have 1262 packages assigned to maintainer-needed@. Only
> > > a few of them have a large number of bugs, many have just version bump
> > > requests. 953 packages have no bug open.
> > >
> > > Please consider adopting some of the packages, or at least fixing some
> > > of the relevant bugs. For package - bug count list, take a look at [1].
> > > Please note that this list is not autogenerated, so it will soon be
> > > outdated, I hope :).
> > >
> > > We should also consider removing some of the packages listed there.
> > >
> > > [1]:http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/maintainer-needed.txt
> >
> > I'm not a developer, which means I can't actively pick up any packages. If
> > helpful, I would be willing to go through older open bugs and see if there
> > is anything I can pick up.
> >
> > For net-im/skype, I did check a few things last week as I had issues
> > connecting:
> > bugs: 461668, 462504, 440512, 467252, 493068, 512576 are for version <4.3
> > which can no longer connect (Versions are being blocked by Skype upstream)
> > I think these can be closed.
>
> Is it fine to remove all versions <4.3 from the tree then?

Should be as they will never work.
I got an email from Skype about it which I can forward, but it's in Dutch. 
(Couldn't quickly find a version in English)

> By the way, you can proxy-maintain some of those packages if you like.
> See [1].
>
> [1]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers

I'll have a look which of the "maintainer-needed" packages I use and know 
sufficiently to assist with.

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Joost