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It can be somewhat difficult to find someone to look over and commit an |
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ebuild on an unmaintained package though - the several times i've done that |
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have involved tracking down developers with previous commits to the package |
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or who are active in the category and trying to find one who isn't retired |
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(I have good taste in packages, apparently - high turnover :P). On one, I |
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had to talk to 7 different developers before I found someone willing and |
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able to help. Just adding to the bug probably won't help unless it's |
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assigned to someone - take a look at it's changelog |
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(/usr/portage/category/package/Changelog) and try to get in touch with |
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specific people if nobody responds to the tracker. |
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Random idea: How about a different bug assignee for maintainer-needed |
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packages with provided ebuilds/patches? Either something generic, or try to |
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go for something more category/package specific (herds, etc). Lots of work |
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for bugwranglers, though. There is a huge difference to developers between |
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an unmaintained package with no progress and just looking over an ebuild |
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that has been used successfully by several people. |
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- John Brooks |
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On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Robert Bridge <robert@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:42:35 +0200 |
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> Aniruddha <mailing_list@××××××.nl> wrote: |
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> > I've filed the bugreport (version bump) a year ago. It looks like borg |
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> > has no maintainer. |
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> So maintain it. You don't need to be a dev to write an ebuild, and |
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> there are enough devs who are happy to throw an eye over user donated |
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> ebuilds and commit them to the tree... |
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> Removing a package from portage simply because no one has commited the |
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> up-to-date version you want is silly. If the only problem is |
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> no version bumping, provide the ebuild. Someone will commit it. I've |
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> done that for a few packages, it's not hard. |
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> I don't know anything about borg specifically, but as a user, I would |
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> not want to see packages being removed from portage just because the |
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> devs are too busy to write version bump ebuilds. |
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> Rob. |
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