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W dniu sob, 23.06.2018 o godzinie 02∶30 -0500, użytkownik Marty E. |
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Plummer napisał: |
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> On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 09:22:00AM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > W dniu pią, 22.06.2018 o godzinie 21∶50 -0500, użytkownik Marty E. |
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> > Plummer napisał: |
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> > > So, as you may be aware I've been doing some work on moving bzip2 to an |
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> > > autotools based build. Recently I've ran into app-crypt/mhash, which is |
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> > > in a semi-abandoned state (talking with the maintainer on twitter atm), |
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> > > and I was thinking it may be a good idea to set up a project for keeping |
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> > > these semi-abandoned and really-abandoned libraries and projects up to |
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> > > date and such. |
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> > > |
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> > > Basically, an upstream for packages who's upstream is either |
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> > > uncontactable or is otherwise not accepting bug fixes and patches. So |
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> > > far I can only think of app-crypt/mhash and app-arch/bzip2 but I'm sure |
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> > > there are others in this state. |
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> > > |
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> > So in order to fix problem of semi-abandoned packages, you're creating |
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> > an indirect herd-like entity that will soon be semi-abandoned itself |
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> > because people will be dumping random packages into it and afterwards |
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> > nobody will claim responsibility for them. |
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> > |
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> > -- |
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> > Best regards, |
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> > Michał Górny |
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> No, I mean for packages which are important enough in gentoo to warrant |
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> such treatment. For instance, every email I've tried for bzip2's |
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> upstream bounced or recieved no reply. That, I assume, is important |
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> enough to actually maintain and improve. Any other library which may be |
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> as important which are as inactive would be added. |
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Sounds like you're going to take over half of base-system ;-). |
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I really prefer having single dedicated individuals for that kind of |
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stuff. Projects just blur the responsibility. |
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-- |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |