Re: [gentoo-dev] quixote currently unmaintained

[Carsten Lohrke]

On Tuesday 01 November 2005 18:43, Jon Portnoy wrote:
> You are technically correct in the sense that there is literally no
> policy stating "keep unmaintained stuff in the repository."

All I wanted to say is that we have no policy about it and a fair share of 
rotten ebuilds in the repository reflects this. I do not say we should remove 
every (temporarily) unmaintained package, nor do I care about exactly this 
one, but at least grant does it in this case and advises to remove it, if no 
one is willing to take it. Now we can hear voices "no, someone could miss 
it", instead just taking over maintainership. 

The bottom line: No one really needs to take care of the packages they 
maintain and those who do, get the reply not to do. Oh, if Grant just had 
(against policy) removed the package silently as others did here and there - 
probably no one had bothered.


Carsten