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

[Alec Warner]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:

> On 22 Jan 2016 12:04, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 18:45:20 +0100 Michał Górny wrote:
> > > If I see a package that clearly doesn't build or otherwise simply
> > > doesn't work, could not have worked for past 3 years, are you forcing
> > > me to waste a time reporting a bug to no maintainer who could fix it?
> >
> > sure, don't waste your time and just delete it so that nobody can track
> > why it was removed or even attempt to fix it.
> >
> > > Because to me, the lack of any open bugs is a clear evidence that
> > > the package is not only unmaintained, but also unused.
> >
> > lack of open bug means there is no known bug; anything else is pure
> > supposition
>
> this.  if anything, it sounds like i need to keep open a trivial bug
> for a package to keep people from wrongly proactively tree cleaning.
>
> the # of users of a package is irrelevant.  if there are (real i.e. not
> "typo in message" bugs) open, then that's a diff story.
>

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Treecleaner/Policy

I tried to write the policy as clearly as possible, feel free to request
modifications.

-A



> -mike
>