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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFD] Adopt-a-package, proxy-maintenance, and other musings
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:15:50
Message-Id: 20160121181528.30e3ec4d@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFD] Adopt-a-package, proxy-maintenance, and other musings by William Hubbs
1 On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 10:53:58 -0600
2 William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > I would like to see a possible timelimit set on how long packages can
5 > stay in maintainer-needed; once a package goes there, if we can't find
6 > someone to maintain it, we should consider booting it after that time
7 > limit passes.
8
9 Note that maintainer-needed doesn't necessarily mean package is crap.
10 Some simply don't really need a maintainer because they just work.

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