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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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