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On 23/06/2018 09:43, Mikle Kolyada wrote: |
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> But how would it serve gentoo itself? Lots of packages in the distro |
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> have dead upstream but still work. |
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> Why would you want to make gentoo an upstream area rather than moving a |
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> dead project itself, say, |
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> to github and do the job there? |
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+1 |
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I like the idea of taking responsibility for the abandoned packages that |
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are still useful. |
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It's probably not Gentoo-specific, so a distro-neutral way of handling |
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that seems most appropriate. |
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It may even be worth it to coordinate with other distros (and maybe |
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downstreams) so that the new version becomes a standard. |
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Finally, having more than one person on this (to help continuity), and a |
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common platform like GitHub also seem very helpful. |
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Paweł |