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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] sci-geosciences/googleearth is orphan and needs a dedicated maintainer
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 15:19:56
Message-Id: 52EBBF0F.5060309@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] sci-geosciences/googleearth is orphan and needs a dedicated maintainer by Mike Gilbert
1 On 01/30/2014 11:02 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
3 >> El jue, 30-01-2014 a las 13:47 +0100, Marc Schiffbauer escribió:
4 >>> * Pacho Ramos schrieb am 29.01.14 um 07:58 Uhr:
5 >>>> Currently, there is no really working version of it in the tree:
6 >>>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494624
7 >>>>
8 >>>> But due its bumps and current bugs, this needs a maintainer...
9 >>>> otherwise, I would treeclean it (the problem is that looks like some
10 >>>> people use it, but without none of them willing to maintain it, it will
11 >>>> be difficult to handle :( )
12 >>>>
13 >>>>
14 >>>
15 >>> I would help taking care of it, as I use it sometimes.
16 >>>
17 >>> How oftes does this need to be bumped?
18 >>>
19 >>>
20 >>
21 >> I am not sure :(, I am not too familiar with it since it never worked ok
22 >> on my machines
23 >>
24 >
25 > I do a lot of version bumping on google-chrome, and I have a script
26 > that automates the process for me. If anyone is interested in
27 > maintaining googleearth in a similar manner, you might find my script
28 > useful.
29 >
30 > http://dev.gentoo.org/~floppym/chrome-bump
31 >
32
33 Googleearth is 90% of the time broken. I don't see how you can do
34 automated version bumps there. And we should not bump if the new version
35 is broken.

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