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On 06/22/11 12:18, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> On 22/06/2011 06:47 ¼¼, Christoph Mende wrote: |
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>> On Mi, 2011-06-22 at 18:33 +0300, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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>>> On 22/06/2011 06:19 ??, Dane Smith wrote: |
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>>>> - gpg control packet |
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>>>> All, |
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>>>> Thanks! |
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>>>> [1] http://dev.c1pher.net/index.php/2011/03/c1phers-adopt-a-package-program/ |
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>>> Hi Dane, |
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>>> I tried to do the same a year ago. Have a look here. It may help you |
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>>> understand why that effort did not succeed |
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>>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/dev/209204 |
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>> I see concerns about to-be-orphaned ebuilds where proxied maintainers |
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>> only care about the ebuild for a short period. This would only be a |
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>> problem with new ebuilds that will be added to the tree with a proxy |
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>> maintainer. Instead of encouraging that, this project could have a goal |
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>> to reduce m-n packages by assigning proxy maintainers. |
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>> So no new packages, only old ones revived. Sounds reasonable to me. |
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> This is what treecleaners try to do. Announce the upcoming removal of a |
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> package so users can step up and maintain a package |
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>> Although I didn't read the full thread, so please don't decapitate me if |
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>> there were other concerns. |
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> The purpose of Dane's proposal is to push ebuilds to portage tree that |
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> you, as developer, have no interest in them at all, but users do. If the |
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> proxy-maintainer disappears, you can always leave it portage tree as m-n |
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> (assuming no open bugs) or ask treecleaners to remove it. |
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Yes, that was one aim, but the primary aim is to reduce m-n packages. |
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That's what I've been doing so far and I think is what would be the |
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primary goal of this "new" project. |
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Dane Smith (c1pher) |
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Gentoo Linux Developer -- QA / Crypto / Sunrise / x86 |
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RSA Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x0C2E1531&op=index |
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