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Dear all |
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> |
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> the following packages are up for grabs after retirement |
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> of the proxied maintainer: |
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> |
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> https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/games-engines/love |
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> |
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> The package remains now with several open tickets and even patches. |
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> User reported the patch works. |
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The proxied maintainer fixed exactly one bug while he was proxied |
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maintainer. |
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This happens too often. |
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Some retire are one, others after very few contributions. |
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Please advertise that you do not need to be maintainer to create a pull |
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request. You should only be maintainer, if you are willing to monitor |
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the bug tracker and take care of the packages in the long term. |
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In the past we gave too often the impression "if you want this bug |
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fixed, become a proxied maintainer" |
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Our bugzilla does not help here (https://bugs.gentoo.org/719720) |
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"No maintainer - Look at |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to |
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take care of it" |
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While this is not totally wrong, it seems that we mislead the volunteers |
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here. Perhaps some read "it" as the bug, while we mean "care for all |
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bugs and keep the package up to date over the next years" |
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Best, |
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Jonas |
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