From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EmOl6-0003ub-AI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 05:00:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBE508WC008317; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 05:00:08 GMT Received: from ms-smtp-02-eri0.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.41]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBE4wJCF005285 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:58:19 GMT Received: from localhost64.wan (cpe-66-25-88-87.satx.res.rr.com [66.25.88.87]) by ms-smtp-02-eri0.texas.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id jBE4wEe1027627 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:58:15 -0600 (CST) From: Daniel Goller To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites for media-video/dvdrip Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:58:04 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <200512081842.54652@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3244904.6R0Yc5zL2V"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200512132258.13145.morfic@gentoo.org> X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Archives-Salt: e960dfb9-817b-4691-8d3b-6af3a077de8d X-Archives-Hash: 4886cfba3b41c60fd357009a6292c50c --nextPart3244904.6R0Yc5zL2V Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 11 December 2005 09:32 pm, R Hill wrote: > Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten wrote: > > Oh well, media-video/dvdrip has many issues reported in bugzilla (some > > have patches, most haven't), and depends on a version of transcode with > > many issues, too (and force us to leave transcode 1 masked). > > Nobody in video herd is looking at it right now, last bump was done by > > morfic, and more would be needed. > > working on dvdrip is one of the things on my todo list, as soon as i fini= sh > rebuilding my system. > > please reconsider dropping packages just because they don't currently have > a dedicated maintainer. if upstream is alive and people are using it, > leave it alone. especially if it's a popular package with just a handful > of bugs. also, it's a lot more likely you'll find a new maintainer for a > package when it's already in the tree for people to discover and use. > > isn't this what the maintainer-needed alias is for? > > --de. sorry there hasn't happened much yet wrt dvd::rip the system i worked on with dvdrip had a disk die, art of a md0, system is= =20 gone, so i too reinstall, some real life worries and usual lack of enough=20 time for everything i started out keeping icewm maintained, and eventually took on other things short version is better i guess: we always appreciate user contributions, i= f i=20 am slow, it does not represent any lack of interest between you and chandler dvd::rip s hould stay, one concern is that transco= de=20 1 i had on the laptop, on the system dvd::rip worked on has 0.6.14, when i= =20 tried dvd::rip on here, it seems to have finished the plugin scan the hangs= ,=20 scanning plugins was what i did on the XP, then the hdd died :) i too am frightened to see good working apps go, i still consider readding= =20 kcpuload which worked then was gone, works still well from an overlay ;) you get the idea i will add your email to the dvd::rip filter in kmail so i hopefully do not= =20 miss things wife's surgery is friday, so i don't expect to do much before then Thanks, Daniel Goller --nextPart3244904.6R0Yc5zL2V Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDn6Zl/aM9DdBw91cRAlRYAJ40URxvqMjB4dIYPuIlG6u5j6LZVwCfe2bt 0uVrjvCoId6oXZ56vTv0xAA= =X6Nv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3244904.6R0Yc5zL2V-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list