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On 01/21/2016 06:15 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: |
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> On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 10:53:58 -0600 |
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> William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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>> I would like to see a possible timelimit set on how long packages can |
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>> stay in maintainer-needed; once a package goes there, if we can't find |
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>> someone to maintain it, we should consider booting it after that time |
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>> limit passes. |
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> Note that maintainer-needed doesn't necessarily mean package is crap. |
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> Some simply don't really need a maintainer because they just work. |
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However it can cause complications when issues are detected, in |
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particular security relevant ones. Attaching a CSV of bugs assigned to |
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security with maintainer-needed CCed. |
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e.g app-text/htmltidy has multiple reverse dependecies but is itself |
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maintainer needed with at least two vulnerabilities (bug 561452) |
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Kristian Fiskerstrand |
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Public PGP key 0xE3EDFAE3 at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net |
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