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Jeremy Olexa wrote: |
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> Also, devs willing to maintain |
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> packages but then later retiring and leaving the packages in limbo. |
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> Maybe there should be some policy such as, when devs retire if no one |
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> else steps up to maintain the package, then it automatically gets |
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> moved to sunrise overlay and only maintained packages stay in the |
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> portage tree. |
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My opinion is that packages should not be removed from the tree just because |
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there is no assigned maintainer. Even moving a package to sunrise effectively |
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makes it invisible to many users, and a great strength of Gentoo is that it |
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has such a variety of packages in the tree. |
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I do see that there are potential problems with unmaintained packages, so it |
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is a good goal to try to solve that. Perhaps developers who have the time and |
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choose to make themselves available to do simple version bumps on unmaintained |
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packages could put themselves on a mailing list to receive such bug reports. |
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Encouraging users to be proxy maintainers is a great idea too (as others have |
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suggested). As a last resort, otherwise working packages could be masked as |
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"unmaintained", which is probably better than total removal (after all, they |
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could still be useful to some users. |
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-Joe |
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