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From: Jason Wever <weeve@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-db/freetds
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 13:51:10
Message-Id: 20040528075053.05ab8943@excelsior.weeve.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-db/freetds by foser
1 On Fri, 28 May 2004 11:35:01 +0200
2 foser <foser@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > no-herd is not acceptable in my opinion, even with an added single
5 > maintainer. There are already cases where such a setup lead to a package
6 > being silently unmaintained again. No, the point is to make an active
7 > search for maintainers (herds) and if those can't be found, well then
8 > maybe other measures need to be taken (masking out/removal?).
9
10 Having a heard doesn't necessarily ensure a package will be maintained
11 either. Most of the packages belonging to the net-mail herd is an example
12 of this.
13
14 --
15 Jason Wever
16 Gentoo/Sparc Team Co-Lead

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