From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7469F13877A for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2014 15:21:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 68C2EE0B98; Sat, 30 Aug 2014 15:21:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 320E7E0B8E for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2014 15:21:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.136] (helo=smtp5.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XNkSv-0005Tb-7S for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2014 17:21:21 +0200 Received: from 53579160.cm-6-8c.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([83.87.145.96] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp5.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XNkSu-00064f-SP for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2014 17:21:21 +0200 Received: from andromeda.localnet (unknown [10.20.13.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 072974B for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2014 17:20:56 +0200 (CEST) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-needed@ packages need you! Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 17:21:18 +0200 Message-ID: <1459621.lJ7Aq49IRZ@andromeda> Organization: Antarean User-Agent: KMail/4.12.5 (Linux/3.14.14-gentoo; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20140830165135.00aa77c3@pomiot.lan> References: <20140830134620.4feb301d@pomiot.lan> <2124705.ob6p62N9UN@andromeda> <20140830165135.00aa77c3@pomiot.lan> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Ziggo-spambar: ---- X-Ziggo-spamscore: -4.9 X-Ziggo-spamreport: ALL_TRUSTED=-1,BAYES_00=-1.9,PROLO_TRUST_RDNS=-3,RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.982 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No X-Archives-Salt: c5f3e1fe-5971-4c83-acc2-5c5622c3aee8 X-Archives-Hash: c614f38e24cde342bc368bb678e3ccf4 On Saturday, August 30, 2014 04:51:35 PM Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny wrote: > Dnia 2014-08-30, o godz. 14:35:20 >=20 > "J. Roeleveld" napisa=C5=82(a): > > On Saturday, August 30, 2014 01:46:20 PM Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny wro= te: > > > Hello, > > >=20 > > > Right now, we have 1262 packages assigned to maintainer-needed@. = Only > > > a few of them have a large number of bugs, many have just version= bump > > > requests. 953 packages have no bug open. > > >=20 > > > Please consider adopting some of the packages, or at least fixing= some > > > of the relevant bugs. For package - bug count list, take a look a= t [1]. > > > Please note that this list is not autogenerated, so it will soon = be > > > outdated, I hope :). > > >=20 > > > We should also consider removing some of the packages listed ther= e. > > >=20 > > > [1]:http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/maintainer-needed.txt > >=20 > > I'm not a developer, which means I can't actively pick up any packa= ges. If > > helpful, I would be willing to go through older open bugs and see i= f there > > is anything I can pick up. > >=20 > > For net-im/skype, I did check a few things last week as I had issue= s > > connecting: > > bugs: 461668, 462504, 440512, 467252, 493068, 512576 are for versio= n <4.3 > > which can no longer connect (Versions are being blocked by Skype up= stream) > > I think these can be closed. >=20 > Is it fine to remove all versions <4.3 from the tree then? Should be as they will never work. I got an email from Skype about it which I can forward, but it's in Dut= ch.=20 (Couldn't quickly find a version in English) > By the way, you can proxy-maintain some of those packages if you like= . > See [1]. >=20 > [1]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers I'll have a look which of the "maintainer-needed" packages I use and kn= ow=20 sufficiently to assist with. -- Joost