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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, gentoo Releases <gentoo-releng@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] status of releng project
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:29:50
Message-Id: AANLkTimE0rvzN7+j-Vj8_+xLXQMD0+6JO2_HWLchFr0t@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] status of releng project by William Hubbs
1 On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 5:15 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
2 > I have noticed that this list and the gentoo-releng irc channel
3 > have been dead for a very long time, and I remember seeing a post a
4 > while back in which agaffney announced his retirement.  Also there are
5 > multiple bugs open on livecd-tools, and there has been no attempt to fix
6 > them.
7 >
8 > I offered to join the team a while back, but was told there was no time
9 > to train me.
10 >
11 > So, I am concerned about the releng project.  What is it's status?  Do
12 > we have anyone who is in the project any longer?
13 >
14 > What about the maintenance of their tools?  I see from the live ebuilds
15 > that they are maintained on git repositories that are not part of
16 > gentoo's infrastructure, and, in the case of livecd-tools, there have
17 > been no changes since December of last year.
18 >
19 > Can someone respond to gentoo-releng and let us know the status of the
20 > project?
21
22 sure would be nice if someone picked up the installer again ...
23 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] status of releng project Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>