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On 11/08/2018 03:36 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote: |
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> * Michael Orlitzky: |
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>> It's an open secret that packages maintained by |
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>> category-name@g.o are in reality unmaintained; or are |
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>> maintained by one guy (who may or may not be on the alias). |
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> As somebody who did not know that, and who was three weeks ago told to |
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> contact the Net-Mail team, I find this more than a little annoying. My |
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> time is just as valuable as everybody else's, after all. Why not flag |
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> packages with "needs maintainer" if the listed team is basically a |
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> mirage? |
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Basically, because we don't know until one of us goes through the same |
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process you just did. File a bug, no one responds. Ping the bug, no one |
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responds. Try to highlight the alias on IRC, no one responds. Eventually |
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announce I'M GOING TO COMMIT THIS, and no one responds. Then one day, |
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announce I'M REPLACING YOU AS MAINTAINER, and no one responds. This can |
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take a year. |
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Some cleanup already took place when we switched from herds to projects, |
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but there are still a lot of packages in limbo, is my impression. It was |
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a bad idea to put down a vague email alias as maintainer in the first |
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place; we're just paying for it now. |
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