Re: [gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:55:55 +0200 Carsten Lohrke <carlo@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| On Monday 12 September 2005 02:25, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > If you're not up for having your code reviewed, don't contribute to
| > an open source project. No-one expects you to produce perfect code
| > straight off (at least, we don't until we give you commit access).
| > We *do* expect you to be prepared to respond to constructive
| > criticism and improve your code.
| 
| Personally I think you're just going a bit wild by closing the bug
| reports as wont fix and expecting users to fix them. That's part of
| developers job, if someone takes into account adding an ebuild to the
| official tree, isn't it?!

Stuff assigned to maintainer-wanted has no developer. From what we've
seen in the past, most of those ebuilds are pretty unlikely to ever get
a developer either. The easiest way to improve those ebuilds' chances
of getting into the tree is by getting them up to a good enough
standard that whoever picks them up is very unlikely to have to do
major extra work on them.

| While I can understand your motivation, I'd
| like to know if your doing is backed up by at least an informal
| decision (didn't follow the threads which resulted in the maintainer*
| aliases, etc.), because we have enough whining guys, who don't
| understand that our ressources are limited. Caring for the quality of
| stuff, that is not part of the official tree is only bad PR, but not
| a win for us, imho.

It was discussed on this list.

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