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On 03/27/2011 02:47 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: |
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> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Jeremy Olexa<darkside@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On 03/26/2011 12:52 AM, Mike Frysinger (vapier) wrote: |
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>>> Index: metadata.xml |
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>>> =================================================================== |
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>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> |
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>>> <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> |
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>>> <pkgmetadata> |
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>>> <herd>no-herd</herd> |
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>>> <maintainer> |
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>>> <email>maintainer-needed@g.o</email> |
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>>> </maintainer> |
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>>> </pkgmetadata> |
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>> |
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>> Can this practice of adding m-n packages to gentoo-x86 be stopped? If you |
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>> add it, take responsibility for it, please. If you don't want to take |
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>> responsibility for it, at least find a team that is willing to look after |
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>> it. |
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> If you prohibit people from doing that, they'll just commit it |
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> normally, and then remove themselves a week later. |
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Why does anyone need to *add* a package that is maintainer-needed? This |
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is one of the problems of the gentoo-x86 tree - too many |
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maintainer-needed packages. It is a bad thing for our users because when |
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they submit bugs and/or fixes, they go [generally] unnoticed for ages. |
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Also, as you may know, the treecleaner team is constantly "fighting" |
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with removing m-n packages. |
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The tree has 679 m-n packages. |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners/maintainer-needed.xml |
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> I propose that we should be more aggressive about package.masking (for |
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> removal) all maintainer-needed packages from the tree by doing that |
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> one month after they become maintainer-needed. If someone doesn't |
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> volunteer to take care of it, it probably wasn't important anyway. |
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That is abit extreme for me (read: I don't have motivation to fight the |
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flames), but I wouldn't complain if someone else did it to be honest. |
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-Jeremy |
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