Re: [gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date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 20:53:26 +0200 Carsten Lohrke <carlo@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| On Monday 12 September 2005 19:56, Jakub Moc wrote:
| 1. The biggest share of maintenance isn't getting an ebuild right,
| but the ongoing effort keeping it up to date, applying patches,
| interact with upstream developers, test, stabilize,... To me it
| absolutely doesn't matter, if an ebuild is broken or not before
| taking into account to maintain it.

A lot of that depends upon the package in question. Some of the things
I maintain have pretty tricky ebuilds and some fairly hairy eclass
voodoo, but the actual bumps are almost always extremely quick and
simple.

| 2. People are interested in applications, but may not have the skills
| or interest to get an ebuild 100% perfect. WONTFIX will look like
| PISSOFF for them. I think we just look a bit petty-minded.

We don't WONTFIX it without an explanation. I always give something
along the lines of "Please attach an updated ebuild with the following
things fixed and reopen:".

*shrug* If someone wants to create a new bugzilla resolution, I'll
start using it, but for now, WONTFIX is what we agreed was the most
suitable resolution.

And as for taking it as a PISSOFF... We've had exactly one person do
that so far. All the rest of the feedback we receive -- which is a heck
of a lot -- is of the "thanks for the pointers, please could someone
check this updated ebuild?" and occasionally "could you clarify $blah
for me please?" variety.

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