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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About unresolved bugs assigned to voip for ages
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 06:56:42
Message-Id: 1349592945.14177.4.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About unresolved bugs assigned to voip for ages by Ben de Groot
1 El dom, 07-10-2012 a las 12:08 +0800, Ben de Groot escribió:
2 > On 7 October 2012 04:37, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
3 > <chithanh@g.o> wrote:
4 > > Pacho Ramos schrieb:
5 > >> Hello
6 > >>
7 > >> I am noticing for a long time that bugs related with ekiga, opal,
8 > >> yate... are completely unattended by voip team for years. If nobody
9 > >> from that team is willing to maintain them, please move them to
10 > >> maintainer-needed to, at least, reflect reality.
11 > >
12 > > The members of the voip team are usually interested in a few specific
13 > > packages only.
14 > >
15 > > Many of the packages which have become unmaintained had a maintainer
16 > > once, but these were retired from Gentoo at some point. The package
17 > > was then left with the herd. Nobody in the herd was interested to
18 > > maintain them but nobody was sufficiently motivated to speak out
19 > > against this either.
20 >
21 > Does voip herd belong to any project, is there a leader? Can you guys
22 > get together and decide who is doing what? And then remove inactive
23 > devs from the herd, and put unmaintained packages up for grabs /
24 > assign to maintainer-needed?
25 >
26 > That would make things more transparent and maybe get some movement in
27 > open bugs.
28
29 Yes, that would be the right thing to do as now there are a lot of
30 packages that are like in a "limbo"

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