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From: Tobias Scherbaum <dertobi123@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: remove app-office/borg from portage.
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:12:18
Message-Id: 1219097533.4068.23.camel@homer.ob.libexec.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: remove app-office/borg from portage. by John Brooks
1 John Brooks wrote:
2 > Random idea: How about a different bug assignee for maintainer-needed
3 > packages with provided ebuilds/patches? Either something generic, or
4 > try to go for something more category/package specific (herds, etc).
5 > Lots of work for bugwranglers, though. There is a huge difference to
6 > developers between an unmaintained package with no progress and just
7 > looking over an ebuild that has been used successfully by several
8 > people.
9
10 No need for an additional mail/bugzie alias here, we could simply use a
11 KEYWORD like the existing 'Inclusion' (which isn't used that much for
12 now, 63 open bugs have that keyword) or a new 'HasPatch' as a
13 counterpart for 'NeedPatch'.
14
15 Tobias

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