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From: Aaron Bauman <bman@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] (Lots of) Packages up for grabs due to net-mail@ project disbanding
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 20:43:45
Message-Id: 20190327204337.GA14496@monkey
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] (Lots of) Packages up for grabs due to net-mail@ project disbanding by Matt Turner
1 On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 01:03:19PM -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
2 > On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 12:23 PM Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
3 > >
4 > > On 3/27/19 3:19 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
5 > > >>
6 > > >> You got it: I just pushed 17 commits, addressing ~5 open bugs. I've
7 > > >> added you, klondike, proxy-maint, and myself as maintainers.
8 > > >
9 > > > Nice. I'm curious: what were you waiting on before?
10 > > >
11 > >
12 > > It was pretend-maintained by net-mail, and I wasn't a member of the
13 > > project. Most of the changes were available as part of bug 629914
14 > > though, so it's not like I was keeping them secret.
15 >
16 > Makes sense. I suppose this is exactly the reason we want to disband
17 > these herd-projects.
18 >
19
20 That is *exactly* why in my book. While considering this topic and
21 Michael's work... there are approximately 15 outstanding bugs of root
22 privilege escalation. Many of those packages are dormant and under the
23 guise of a project maintaining them.
24
25 --
26 Cheers,
27 Aaron

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