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On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 10:15:06AM +0200, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: |
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> On 23/06/2018 09:43, Mikle Kolyada wrote: |
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> > But how would it serve gentoo itself? Lots of packages in the distro |
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> > have dead upstream but still work. |
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> > Why would you want to make gentoo an upstream area rather than moving a |
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> > dead project itself, say, |
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> > to github and do the job there? |
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> +1 |
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> I like the idea of taking responsibility for the abandoned packages that |
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> are still useful. |
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> It's probably not Gentoo-specific, so a distro-neutral way of handling |
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> that seems most appropriate. |
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> It may even be worth it to coordinate with other distros (and maybe |
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> downstreams) so that the new version becomes a standard. |
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> Finally, having more than one person on this (to help continuity), and a |
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> common platform like GitHub also seem very helpful. |
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> Paweł |
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Agreed in general; the problem is getting it started at all; difficult |
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to get other distros to join if there is nothing to join. |
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