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On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:32:06 +0200 |
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Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote: |
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> Thanks for saving this package. As Jeremy said, there is absolutely |
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> no way to measure the popularity of a package. So if it has no |
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> maintainer, and open bugs we have to mask it and announce it here. It |
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> is up to you whether you want to save it or not |
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I don't think the (perceived) popularity of the package has anything to |
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do with it. |
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I do think maybe treecleaner@ needs to set up policies with regard to |
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methods of investigation, thoroughness, and transparency. In the case |
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at hand, treecleaner shouldn't have been called in (you're not the |
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bloody cavalry you know! ;-) in the first place, and should certainly |
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not have acted (so quickly). |
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It's not clear to me generally what you (treecleaner@) all do and why |
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you do it - but it *is* clear that it's very easy to `rm -r *' to get |
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rid of some old stuff and that you may end up regretting it later. |
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Particularly, it looks like the net-mail, net-news and netmon herds are |
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understaffed and have been for a while, and I see a general shift of |
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developers towards desktop oriented packages and away from the nuts and |
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bolts that make it all go. |
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I think (but have no facts apart from talking to people and handling |
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network package related bugs in every way possible) that our userbase |
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is still much more technically oriented. If that's all true, then doing |
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some `rm net-*/*' cleanups may well end up hurting Gentoo as you would |
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drive out more of the networking oriented people (users and developers) |
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that I feel we still need to support, and turn into Yet Another Desktop |
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Oriented Distro (which we also need, but that's already covered quite |
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well). |
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ISTR treecleaner@ already had some policy in place that requires some |
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$period to pass before you mask for removal. Maybe you should announce |
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an upcoming mask nice and early to keep that shock wave from reaching |
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users straight away. |
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Regards, |
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jer |