Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed changes to how ebuilds are managed from newsletter.

[Mark Bainter]

Henti Smith [bain@×××××××.za] wrote:
> here follows the proposal:
>
[snip]
> this proposal sounds good from the developers side .. but shows very little
> leeway for user contributed interaction which from reading many mails and
> discussions seems to be the real problem. The users contribute and it takes a
> long time for a responce. this system will make ebuild responcibility inside
> the development group easer to assign .. but if as was proposed, a package
> needs a dedicated developer .. and one does not rise to take it .. it gets
> dropped ..
>

Hrm.  I'm not sure how you're planning to handle dropping packages, but
perhaps they could be flagged in some way, either server side or in the
ebuild itself, and a tool could be provided within the portage tools 
group to do a check and see if any of the packages currently in use on
a machine are scheduled to be dropped?  Preferably something we could
run in a cron job...i.e. not a graphical client.

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