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On 02/03/2012 03:10 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: |
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> Mike Frysinger schrieb: |
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>> On Thursday 02 February 2012 17:56:16 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn |
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>> wrote: |
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>>> there have been a number of packages masked lately due to lack |
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>>> of maintainer. However, their metadata.xml does not list |
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>>> maintainer-needed@g.o which I think should be the first step in |
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>>> searching for a new maintainer. |
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>> if there is no<herd> and no<maintainer>, then |
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>> "maintainer-needed@g.o" is implicit. why do we need to explicitly |
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>> list it ? -mike |
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> If that is the case, then removing would also be ok. But my point was |
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> that the packages still had other maintainers listed. |
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In hylafax's case, the package has been broken since the addition of |
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tiff-4.0.0_beta5, which got added to tree "12 May 2010" |
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Both tiff and hylafax are with nerdboy as maintainer. At this point I've |
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looked at the commitrate of said maintainer |
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With version bump request open from year ago |
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Now that tiff-4 is going stable, the breakage enters stable tree. |
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In the lastrite mail, I've sent the mail also directly to the |
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maintainer, CCing him. I've never got any reply, and the bugs don't have |
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any comment from the marked maintainer |
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Personally I hope someone who can also test the runtime, would commit |
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hylafax+ instead of fixing hylafax to tree (bug 168890). Or both. |
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So it was really 2+2=4 which lead to this, all the things combined, |
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case-by-case review, and I'm not sure the situation can even be |
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reflected by the metadata.xml. |
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Except the maintainer could have removed himself from it, when he |
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realized he doesn't have enough time or intrest for it |
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Overall I think the lastrites had the desired effect of causing enough |
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buzz around it for other people to notice/get intrest to it |