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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Lastrite: games-fps/openarena
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:24:24
Message-Id: 201003051723.04885.hwoarang@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Lastrite: games-fps/openarena by Ben de Groot
1 On Friday 05 March 2010 17:06:21 Ben de Groot wrote:
2 > On 5 March 2010 15:22, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote:
3 > > On Friday 05 March 2010 15:17:06 Ben de Groot wrote:
4 > >> So step up and maintain it!
5 > >
6 > > games herd already maintains that package . At least this is what I see
7 > > on metadata.xml
8 >
9 > Nominally, yes. But if a package has open QA and security bugs and
10 > patches that have not been reviewed or even commented upon by the
11 > maintainer(s) for over 6 months, then you can't consider that package
12 > actually maintained. So for this package to remain in the tree, someone
13 > needs to step up and actually maintain it.
14 >
15 > Cheers,
16 I assume that only members of QA can actually step up and fix the problem.
17 Otherwise the games heard will complain that random devs are touching their
18 packages. I just assume that but I am not willing to step into their
19 "territory" and this is why I asked permission to touch the bug ( see my last
20 comment on the bug )
21 --
22 Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
23 Gentoo Linux Developer
24 Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org

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