Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFD] Adopt-a-package, proxy-maintenance, and other musings

[Andrew Savchenko]

On Sat, 23 Jan 2016 21:04:56 +0800 Ian Delaney wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 22:02:21 -0500
> Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk@××××××××××.edu> wrote:
>
> > Duncan:
> > > NP-Hardass posted on Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:44:49 -0500 as excerpted:
> > >
> >  [...]
> > >
> > > That gave me the idea of a maintainer-needed eclass.  When packages
> > > are set to maintainer-needed, they can simply inherit this eclass
> > > and add whatever function to the pkg_postinst, that will add a
> > > message that will in effect say "adopt-me please", probably
> > > printing a proxy-maintainer invitation URL to go to for more
> > > information.
> > >
> > > Talking about pkg_postinst messages, unless I missed it there's no
> > > simple way to add a one ATM, without coding up the whole function,
> > > making it problematic for eclasses, etc.  For EAPI-7, what about
> > > either a helper function that can be called, or an array variable
> > > that can be simply added to, that simply adds the supplied message
> > > to a list of messages printed at pkg_postinst time, and of course
> > > an appropriate default_pkg_postinst to go along with it?  Then
> > > ebuilds and eclasses can call this helper or set this var in
> > > whatever phase they need to, and the message will be printed at
> > > pkg_postinst time without having to worry about setting up your own
> > > pkg_postinst or stepping on anything pkg_postinst related setup
> > > elsewhere.
> > See:
> > sys-apps/portage: show an elog message when merged package is
> > maintained by maintainer-needed
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398633
> >
> > Can we reconsider implementing this idea perhaps?
> >
>
> Given the thrust of this whole discussion this is a good idea. It
> naturally advertises packages of this unmaintained status to users as
> they emerge.
 
Please make this optional. Elog already contains too much
information and it is already hard to read logs after world update
or other massive change. It literally takes hours sometimes.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko