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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? When searching for Gentoo packages, I thought that if a team was |
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listed as maintainers it was a sign that the package was well cared for, |
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but from what I hear today that seems to be a misconception on my end. |
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> Looking at the milter-regex history... you're the only person who |
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> cares about it, so I think eventually the proxy maintainers should |
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> just merge the PR barring any technical issues. |
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Several developers stepped up today to help with this PR, for which I am |
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grateful. Thanks to Lars Wendler, Michał Górny and Craig Andrews (in |
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order of appearance) for picking up the ball. Milter-regex has now |
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officially been passed into my and the Proxy Maintainer team's care and |
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the pull request was merged. |
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Standing on the outside looking in, I see a very busy P.M. team. |
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Possibly too busy, as I mentioned before. Is this team bearing more load |
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than others? Should responsibility be redistributed? I don't know the |
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answers, but I can't avoid asking myself these questions. |
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-Ralph |
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