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Thanks Kerin. Sorry to show my frustration. Just my feeling toward parts |
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of the Gentoo project lately. I will ping QA about this, and try to find |
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a perl dev who might look at the package. |
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This package is pretty stable. There are just some important bug fixes |
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in newer releases that would be nice to have stabilized. |
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Wendall |
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Kerin Millar wrote: |
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> 2009/4/7 Wendall Cada <wendallc@×××××.com>: |
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>> I run several production servers on Hardened Gentoo, and have a concern. |
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>> The perl team has been awesome. I really love that packages are fairly |
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>> fresh compared to what is in cpan. However, there is one very important |
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>> package that's been ignored for far too long: SpamAssassin |
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>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177144 |
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>> Why has it been waiting for a mips keyword for almost two years? No |
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>> reply from mips. Pinging the bug has no effect, as seen with comments |
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>> #5-#8. Is the package abandoned? Is there some political issue with |
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>> Gentoo that keeps abandoned packages from being reassigned? I would love |
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>> to offer my help, but lately those offers have been flat rejected by |
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>> Gentoo devs. I guess my lips don't pucker well enough. I would like to |
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>> have this package dealt with. There are some important bug fixes in |
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>> newer releases. |
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> I can appreciate your frustation. At this point, maybe you should try |
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> bringing it to the attention of the QA team (qa@g.o)? Resolving |
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> this situation would presumably be in line with their first stated |
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> goal, which is to "keep the tree in a state which benefits all of our |
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> users and developers alike". |
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> Another tactic would be to befriend a developer who has a vested |
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> interest in the continued fitness of the package (i.e. is known to be |
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> a user) and to ask for their assistance in moving things forwards. |
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> Some developers are rather more receptive to contributions from users |
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> than others, and you may chance upon one. |
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> Cheers, |
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> --Kerin |
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