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On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 01:17:46PM +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: |
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> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On 03/26/2011 12:52 AM, Mike Frysinger (vapier) wrote: |
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> > |
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> >> Index: metadata.xml |
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> >> =================================================================== |
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> >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> |
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> >> <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> |
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> >> <pkgmetadata> |
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> >> <herd>no-herd</herd> |
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> >> <maintainer> |
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> >> <email>maintainer-needed@g.o</email> |
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> >> </maintainer> |
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> >> </pkgmetadata> |
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> > |
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> > Can this practice of adding m-n packages to gentoo-x86 be stopped? If you |
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> > add it, take responsibility for it, please. If you don't want to take |
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> > responsibility for it, at least find a team that is willing to look after |
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> > it. |
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> > |
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> If you prohibit people from doing that, they'll just commit it |
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> normally, and then remove themselves a week later. |
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> I propose that we should be more aggressive about package.masking (for |
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> removal) all maintainer-needed packages from the tree by doing that |
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> one month after they become maintainer-needed. If someone doesn't |
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> volunteer to take care of it, it probably wasn't important anyway. |
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> -- |
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> ~Nirbheek Chauhan |
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> Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team |
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Uhm no. The fact that nobody takes care of it doesn't necessarily mean |
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that the package is broken and that it should be removed |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 |
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