lack of manpower == ebuilds sitting around ...
look at the bugs that bug-wranglers own ... theres a ton of new packages ...
we cant exactly tell developers 'hey, this package is now yours to maintain' 
...
-mike

On Thursday 07 August 2003 09:15, Henti Smith wrote:
> hi ...
>
> I've had a few ebuilds that I've been working on and helping with that has
> just been closed or been standing open for a long time on bugs.gentoo.org
>
> can anybody explain whats going on ?
>
> It's a little discouraging to do work and see nothing of it.
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9181
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14415
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18281
>
> I was unaware of the bugday or would have helped there as well.