Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-needed@ packages need you!

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 2014-08-30, o godz. 14:35:20
"J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org> napisał(a):

> On Saturday, August 30, 2014 01:46:20 PM Michał Górny wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Right now, we have 1262 packages assigned to maintainer-needed@. Only
> > a few of them have a large number of bugs, many have just version bump
> > requests. 953 packages have no bug open.
> >
> > Please consider adopting some of the packages, or at least fixing some
> > of the relevant bugs. For package - bug count list, take a look at [1].
> > Please note that this list is not autogenerated, so it will soon be
> > outdated, I hope :).
> >
> > We should also consider removing some of the packages listed there.
> >
> > [1]:http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/maintainer-needed.txt
>
> I'm not a developer, which means I can't actively pick up any packages. If
> helpful, I would be willing to go through older open bugs and see if there is
> anything I can pick up.
>
> For net-im/skype, I did check a few things last week as I had issues
> connecting:
> bugs: 461668, 462504, 440512, 467252, 493068, 512576 are for version <4.3
> which can no longer connect (Versions are being blocked by Skype upstream)
> I think these can be closed.

Is it fine to remove all versions <4.3 from the tree then?

By the way, you can proxy-maintain some of those packages if you like.
See [1].

[1]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers

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Best regards,
Michał Górny