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On 2015-03-23 18:54, Pacho Ramos wrote: |
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> Personally I think a tag in metadata to show that a package can be |
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> touched by others freely would be much more useful than having a big |
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> herd with a mix of packages that are not even related. |
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Sure, I'd just like to expose this status in a better manner for the set |
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of official and unofficial tools out there than having to grep the tree |
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or similar. |
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I'm fine with a metadata flag if people can agree on what that is as I'm |
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unsure if the previous discussion on that topic went anywhere. |
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> If people usually don't have time to fix the tons of packages that |
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> lacks a maintainer (and, then, they could also fix them without asking |
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> for permission), I doubt that new herd would get much real help :( |
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This isn't about unmaintained pkgs or asking for help. It's more an |
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experiment in non-territorial package maintenance. |
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Tim |
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