Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Róbert Čerňanský" <openhs@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/cuneiform
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:09:49
Message-Id: 20130325070843.04C518B7880@amit.localdomain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/cuneiform by Patrick Lauer
1 On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:23:31 +0800
2 Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 03/24/2013 09:40 PM, Peter Stuge wrote:
5 > > Markos Chandras wrote:
6 > >> The masks are sort of announcements as you have 30 days to revert
7 > >> that decision.
8 > >
9 > > You don't seem to recognize the quite significant psychological
10 > > impact of you having already made the decision, compared to, say,
11 > > having an actually inclusive package removal process.
12 >
13 > If the package has been "rotting away" with open bugs in bugzilla for
14 > weeks or months and no one cares ... what are we supposed to do? Wait
15 > a bit longer?
16
17 In short, mask it, wait until it rots completely and _then_ apply 30 day
18 removal policy. Unmask it, if it finds a maintainer and bugs are fixed.
19
20 Robert
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24 Róbert Èeròanský
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