Re: [gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date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 19:32:32 +0200 Carsten Lohrke <carlo@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| On Monday 12 September 2005 19:03, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > 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.
| 
| To have even more unmaintained packages in the tree. The tree it is
| that needs QA. If "maintainer-wanted" bugs stay open forever - who
| cares.

The people who work with maintainer-wanted care.

| > It was discussed on this list.
| 
| Thanks for the pointer. :p So from the user point of view it's better
| to file a request without attaching an ebuild, because it wouldn't
| directly resolved WONTFIX?! (Before you answer that: From the user
| point of view, not your's.) I mean I'm often giving a pointer on an
| formal issue or a very wrong attempt, but being that strict is not
| neecessary, discouraging and probably some even take the chance to
| molest about Gentoo, imho.

Not really. It's pretty likely that anyone who looks seriously at
maintainer-wanted will include "and KEYWORDS includes EBUILD" in their
search. They'll probably include "and KEYWORDS includes REVIEWED" too...

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