Mart Raudsepp wrote:
> 
> Liking and using the package yourself shouldn't be a prerequisite for a
> package getting to be in-tree by the maintainer-wanted team. 

How about actually maintaining the package?

For example, user contributes ebuild for foo-1.0.  I don't use it or 
like it, but I go ahead and throw it into portage.  User logs bug that 
foo-1.0 wipes out random files from time to time.  Nobody looks at said 
bug since nobody owns foo, and bug starts getting 3000 "me-too!" 
comments.  Some charitable developer takes a look and the problem isn't 
obvious and offers to just mask the package.  Now 3000 people running 
foo are upset for it being de-supported (when it wasn't supported in the 
first place).

Wouldn't it make more sense for people who like the foo-1.0 ebuild to 
just stick it in their own ebuild or an overlay and be on their own 
(since they're really on their own either way)?  Or to move it to 
sunrise or some other place where it might actually get some level of 
support?

If Gentoo is going to distribute an ebuild Gentoo should 
Do-It-Right(TM).  Why put our name on something we don't really want to 
care for?