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Mark Loeser posted <20060424131128.GH690@×××××××××××××.com>, excerpted |
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below, on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:11:28 -0400: |
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>> > * QA will take an active role in cleaning up unmaintained and broken |
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>> > packages from the tree. It is also encouraged of members of the QA |
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>> > team to assist in mentoring new developers that wish to take over |
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>> > unmaintained packages/herds. |
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>> i am not sure how to read this one, it could mean broken packages that |
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>> are unmaintained, but how it is written it could also mean unmaintained |
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>> || broken, not only unmaintained && broken, i really wish you would at |
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>> least consider not killing off unmaintained and not broken packages, |
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>> and word it in some way that this comes out clear in that paragraph |
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> It is written exactly how I meant for it to be interpretted. We will be |
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> removing things that are unmaintained *and* broken. I'm sure the |
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> security team will agree that this is a problem that currently plagues |
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> them as well, and I think we can help them out by doing what we can in |
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> this regard. |
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What about "... cleaning up and removing from the tree unmaintained |
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packages as they are found to be broken."? |
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If I'm not mistaken, that makes the meaning crystal clear. (Maybe |
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"cleaning up /or/ removing"?) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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