Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Packages up for grabs -- xmerlin, yoswink, chtekk, omp, tantive, mueli, bluebird, hncaldwell, caleb

[Markos Chandras]

ACK

 I will proceed with masking as soon as possible

Thanks

2010/6/18 José María <nimiux@g.o>

> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:29:01PM +0300, Markos Chandras wrote:
> > 2010/6/8 José María <nimiux@g.o>
> >
> > > On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 06:25:17PM +0200, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 13:14:07 +0200
> > > > José María Alonso <nimiux@g.o> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I would be very pleased to maintain this package:
> > > > >
> > > > > > app-doc/repodoc
> > > >
> > > > > Is there any chance I can maintain this package?. What do
> > > > > I have to do?.
> > > >
> > > > You could provide unified patches to the ebuilds to fix the four
> > > > outstanding bugs[1] with the package. Someone should CC themselves on
> > > > those bugs who has commit access for the thing to work, of course.
> > > > Maybe the live (-9999) ebuild could use some work too.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >      jer
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=repodoc
> > > >
> > >
> > > Thank you very much for pointing me in the right direction.
> > > I'll begin to work in those bugs.
> > >
> > > Cheers.
> > >
> > > Ok, then I won't mask this package for removal ( I was about to do it
> right
> > now when I accidentally remembered this thread ) for now. If the bugs are
> > still unresolved after 30 days I will have to mask it for removal. In the
> > meantime, if you have working patches for the repodoc bugs [1], I can
> commit
> > them for you and proxy this package for you until you gain tree access
> >
> > [1]: http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=repodoc
>
> Thank you for your help in trying to get the app-doc/repodoc package
> back to live :-)
>
> I've found some information on this package:
>
> 1. I've contacted Fernando Pereda (ferdy), one of the authors of
>   repodoc. He told me (as expected) that this package is no longer
>   maintained. He recommends to find out if the translatos are
>   currently using this package (seems very reasonable).
>   Besides, the package is not very secure, since it allows to run
>   commands by using a specially modify doc.
>   It is slow and the technologies used (bash and sed) are not the
>   proper ones to manage XML.
>
> 2. I've pinged the gentoo-translators maillist [1] to find
>   translators who are using this package. I've got only one
>   negative answer in a week or so.
>
> 3. I've taken a look at the package's unresolved bugs:
>   197617 - Seems tough to fix, according to yoswink and neysx
>            comments.
>   297946 - I've posted a comment [2] in this bug. No answer at
>            the moment.
>   297947 - Haven't check yet.
>   299753 - Seems easy to fix.
>
> So, IMO you can mark it for removal.
>
> Regards.
>
>  [1]
> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-translators/msg_657e5892cf0962d65d8f778ebdda3b86.xml
>  [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297946#c2
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