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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Removals reply (I am not going to figure out which tread of those all should i reply to)
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:52:20
Message-Id: CAGfcS_mdmCHOQHi-a==QhkbjkZBQPTo9+ySJcLbh7gsgBNLPhQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Removals reply (I am not going to figure out which tread of those all should i reply to) by "Tomáš Chvátal"
1 On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Tomáš Chvátal <tomas.chvatal@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > If you as developers and users find some package useful you can retake
3 > the maintainership (or became proxy-maint) which also expects you to
4 > take care of the bugs (QA can prune it even if you take the
5 > maintainership but ignore failures [even if your personal feeling is
6 > that it is corner case, it is for QA to deicde]).
7
8 Citation? I don't see any GLEPs or other Council-approved policies to
9 that effect.
10
11 And this is of course why nobody actually wants to maintain these
12 packages - everybody is going to be looking over your shoulder because
13 they've already decided that the existence of the package bothers
14 them.
15
16 Honestly, threads like this bug me so much that I'm half-tempted to
17 take over maintainership of one of these packages just to be a test
18 case... Ugh - time for an email break...
19
20 Rich

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