[gentoo-dev] !!!Really worried about ebuild updates!

[al3x payne <al3x@al3x.net>]

To whom it may concern:

I'm really concerned about the number of ebuilds that are rapidly
becoming out of date.  I started using Gentoo, in part, because of the
currency of its packages and the ease of updates.  While I understand
that users can submit upgrade requests via bugs.gentoo.org, few package
maintainers seem to be responding to these.  I'm sure I'm not alone in
worrying that Gentoo packages will go the way of Debian: "dedicated"
package maintainers that update once in a blue moon.  Gentoo has, I
would say, an even more elegant system than apt-get; please don't let it
go to waste on antiquated ebuilds.

So this doesn't happen, was can we users do, proactively, to help
developers?  Clearly filing "please update" bugs isn't enough.  I don't
want to just complain; I want to help.  What can we do?  Thanks for your
time and hard work!

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