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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata revised - removal of packages
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 09:35:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1126272943.29257.41.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050909113006.TA94a0d.tv@veller.net>

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On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 11:58 +0200, Torsten Veller wrote:
> To me maintainer-needed is always a first step before a package gets
> masked and removed from the tree.

Agreed.  Set the herd to maintainer-needed.  Since there isn't an actual
maintainer-needed herd, there's no need to add it to herds.xml or
anything.

> Well, i was told that adding the maintainer-needed herd is not a good
> idea and it is best to remove metadata.xml if no valuable information
> remains.

I would say definitely not.  The herd information can be polled by
jeeves, so it *is* valuable to have maintainer-needed in there.

> I couldn't find information on that. Can somebody explain?

Everything should have metadata.  Removing it only adds more work for
someone else later.

> 2)
> What is the next step after the last maintainer is removed from metadata.xml?

Reassign all bugs open for the package to maintainer-needed.

> Well i announced these packages on -dev. Now i can wait some time (how
> long?) and then?

Nothing.  You leave them alone.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-09 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-09  9:58 [gentoo-dev] metadata revised - removal of packages Torsten Veller
2005-09-09 12:24 ` Jakub Moc
2005-09-09 12:46 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-09-09 13:29   ` Alec Warner
2005-09-09 13:57     ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-09-09 15:23   ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-09-09 16:06     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-09-09 13:35 ` Chris Gianelloni [this message]
2005-09-09 16:10 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-09-09 17:36   ` Mike Frysinger
2005-09-09 17:49   ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-09-09 18:08     ` Ciaran McCreesh

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