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On Friday 05 March 2010 17:06:21 Ben de Groot wrote: |
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> On 5 March 2010 15:22, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On Friday 05 March 2010 15:17:06 Ben de Groot wrote: |
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> >> So step up and maintain it! |
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> > |
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> > games herd already maintains that package . At least this is what I see |
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> > on metadata.xml |
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> Nominally, yes. But if a package has open QA and security bugs and |
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> patches that have not been reviewed or even commented upon by the |
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> maintainer(s) for over 6 months, then you can't consider that package |
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> actually maintained. So for this package to remain in the tree, someone |
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> needs to step up and actually maintain it. |
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> Cheers, |
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I assume that only members of QA can actually step up and fix the problem. |
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Otherwise the games heard will complain that random devs are touching their |
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packages. I just assume that but I am not willing to step into their |
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"territory" and this is why I asked permission to touch the bug ( see my last |
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comment on the bug ) |
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Markos Chandras (hwoarang) |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org |