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From: Ultrabug <ultrabug@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] www-servers herd is empty
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:15:44
Message-Id: 4F698DEF.9020708@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] www-servers herd is empty by Pacho Ramos
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4 On 20/03/2012 10:47, Pacho Ramos wrote:
5 > El mar, 20-03-2012 a las 11:40 +0200, Samuli Suominen escribió:
6 >> On 03/20/2012 11:36 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
7 >>> El lun, 19-03-2012 a las 20:48 +0000, Markos Chandras
8 >>> escribió:
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11 >>>> On 03/19/2012 08:32 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
12 >>>>> El dom, 18-03-2012 a las 20:29 -0400, Chris Reffett
13 >>>>> escribió:
14 >>>>>> Hi, I'd be interested in helping with www-servers, but I
15 >>>>>> would have to help by proxy because I am not a dev yet.
16 >>>>>> Chris Reffett
17 >>>>>>
18 >>>>>> On 03/18/12 15:27, Pacho Ramos wrote:
19 >>>>>>> With bass retirement (#391429) lcd has become empty, is
20 >>>>>>> anybody willing to join or should their packages be
21 >>>>>>> moved to maintainer-needed (CCing that empty herd to
22 >>>>>>> allow somebody joining in the future to easily
23 >>>>>>> resurrect the herd)?
24 >>>>>>>
25 >>>>>>> Thanks
26 >>>>>>>
27 >>>>>
28 >>>>> Thanks for offering your help, will CC gentoo-dev mailing
29 >>>>> list and proxy-maint to see how we could handle this case
30 >>>>>
31 >>>> It is very unlikely for proxy-maintainers to proxy an entire
32 >>>> herd. Sorry
33 >>>>
34 >>>> - -- Regards, Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key
35 >>>> ID: B4AFF2C2
36 >>>
37 >>> We need to try to find a way to let him contribute, the problem
38 >>> is that I don't know much about Chris to know if he is ready to
39 >>> try to become a gentoo-dev in the near future :S
40 >>
41 >> I find the whole concept of www-servers herd flawed. It's not
42 >> very likely one person would be running many different servers,
43 >> and thus be able to contribute to them.
44 >>
45
46 That's my case tbh, I co-maintain a www-servers package but don't feel
47 like being able to maintain the whole of them as I just don't use them
48 all.
49
50 >> Propably why the team has no members in the first place...
51 >>
52 >>
53 >
54 > Then, the way to go would be to move them to maintainer-needed and
55 > let people pick whatever they want. I agree and can do it myself
56 > just now if you let me do
57
58 I think that's a good idea and reasonable way to go.
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