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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due to samba project being disbanded
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 19:19:02
Message-Id: CAEdQ38GP=_caiM5=c2cM0s7VSH3STh8LJz6ABTzfsdq3JtwmXQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due to samba project being disbanded by "Michał Górny"
1 On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 10:04 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2 > The samba project will most likely be disbanded shortly. While
3 > the current project members may stay as fallback maintainers,
4 > the following packages (being part of the Samba stack) would really use
5 > new, dedicated maintainers:
6
7 I understand disbanding projects when they're really just the old
8 "herd" concept, but this actually looks like a coherent set of
9 packages that a project should maintain. I don't see a bug about
10 disbanding samba. What's the rationale?

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