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On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 18:17 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: |
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> Markus Nigbur wrote: |
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> > Anyway, as I've already said I'm the _currently_ the only active herd |
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> > member and simply cannot take the responsibility of about 100 new |
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> > packages. |
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> > Therefor I suggest introducing a new keyword to bugzilla's resolution |
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> > list, called NEEDMAINTAINER. |
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> > With this new keyword everyone could compile a list of currently |
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> > unmaintained packages and just take the ones he likes. Additionally this |
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> > would be a great opportunity for non-developers for starting their |
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> > carrier within Gentoo. |
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> I like the concept but I think that a previous suggestion that was discussed |
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> here was better. The suggestion was to create a maintainer-needed@g.o |
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> alias which bugs could be assigned to. The discussion was a while ago but I |
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> don't recall any negative points being raised. |
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A new-ebuilds alias was created on toucan few months back. I guess word |
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never got out (or seemant never setup the account on bugzilla). Perhaps |
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it would be better just to reassign bugs to that account instead of |
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making another resolution. |
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Cheers, |
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