[gentoo-dev] QA last rites for x11-wm/ion

[gentoo-dev] QA last rites for x11-wm/ion

[Diego E. Pettenò]

# Diego E. Pettenò <flameeyes@gentoo.org> (13 Dec 2009)
#  on behalf of QA team
#
# Pre-strip files (bug #241534), ignore flags (bug #241556),
# misplaces documentation (bug #241560), bump request open
# since August 2008 (bug #235888).
#
# Removal on 2010-02-11
x11-wm/ion

[gentoo-dev] Re: QA last rites for x11-wm/ion

[Ryan Hill]

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On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:46:18 +0100
Diego E. Pettenò <flameeyes@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> # Diego E. Pettenò <flameeyes@gentoo.org> (13 Dec 2009)
> #  on behalf of QA team
> #
> # Pre-strip files (bug #241534), ignore flags (bug #241556),
> # misplaces documentation (bug #241560), bump request open
> # since August 2008 (bug #235888).
> #
> # Removal on 2010-02-11
> x11-wm/ion

Really?  Does it not build or something?  That's pretty weak.


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA last rites for x11-wm/ion

[Mike Frysinger]

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On Monday 14 December 2009 18:38:36 Ryan Hill wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:46:18 +0100 Diego E. Pettenò wrote:
> > # Diego E. Pettenò <flameeyes@gentoo.org> (13 Dec 2009)
> > #  on behalf of QA team
> > #
> > # Pre-strip files (bug #241534), ignore flags (bug #241556),
> > # misplaces documentation (bug #241560), bump request open
> > # since August 2008 (bug #235888).
> > #
> > # Removal on 2010-02-11
> > x11-wm/ion
> 
> Really?  Does it not build or something?  That's pretty weak.

yeah, "not clean enough" doesnt really imply pmask+punt.  if it build fails, 
that's a different story.
-mike

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[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: QA last rites for x11-wm/ion

[Peter Hjalmarsson]

mån 2009-12-14 klockan 19:03 -0500 skrev Mike Frysinger:
> On Monday 14 December 2009 18:38:36 Ryan Hill wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:46:18 +0100 Diego E. Pettenò wrote:
> > > # Diego E. Pettenò <flameeyes@gentoo.org> (13 Dec 2009)
> > > #  on behalf of QA team
> > > #
> > > # Pre-strip files (bug #241534), ignore flags (bug #241556),
> > > # misplaces documentation (bug #241560), bump request open
> > > # since August 2008 (bug #235888).
> > > #
> > > # Removal on 2010-02-11
> > > x11-wm/ion
> > 
> > Really?  Does it not build or something?  That's pretty weak.
> 
> yeah, "not clean enough" doesnt really imply pmask+punt.  if it build fails, 
> that's a different story.
> -mike

On the other hand this may be something for treecleaners? A package that
has not been bumped for 7 years? With at least three releases since, and
a bumprequest open for at least one year? A link to a webside that does
not exist?
Sound like a Gentoo maintainer gone MIA or alike.
Also the project is currently more or less dead upstream since the
upstream dev switched to windows.

So I see diegos point in giving it two months to be picked up by someone
that may want to use it/maintain it.

[gentoo-dev] Re: QA last rites for x11-wm/ion

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Peter Hjalmarsson wrote:

> On the other hand this may be something for treecleaners? A package
> that has not been bumped for 7 years? With at least three releases
> since, and a bumprequest open for at least one year? A link to a
> webside that does not exist?

And both its sucessors x11-wm/ion2 and x11-wm/ion3 already punted two
years ago.

Wasn't there some licence issue with this package, too?

Ulrich

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA last rites for x11-wm/ion

[Rémi Cardona]

Le 15/12/2009 08:09, Ulrich Mueller a écrit :
>>>>>> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Peter Hjalmarsson wrote:
>
>> On the other hand this may be something for treecleaners? A package
>> that has not been bumped for 7 years? With at least three releases
>> since, and a bumprequest open for at least one year? A link to a
>> webside that does not exist?
>
> And both its sucessors x11-wm/ion2 and x11-wm/ion3 already punted two
> years ago.
>
> Wasn't there some licence issue with this package, too?

That was with ion3 IIRC. Something about the author changing the license 
from GPL to "don't patch ion3 ever without telling me about it and 
showing me your patches so I can approve them".

Or something similar, wikipedia/google might know more than me.

As far as the original ion is concerned, the masking seems perfectly in 
order. If someone wants it, that person can step up and do the work 
(directly or via proxy).

Cheers,

Rémi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA last rites for x11-wm/ion

[Joshua Saddler]

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On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:09:20 +0100
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Wasn't there some licence issue with this package, too?
> 
> Ulrich

There was with ion3, yes. It was removed for that reason about 2.5 years ago -- not just Gentoo, but basically all distros pulled it. Upstream went crazy.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/49030
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/49048/match=ion3


ion2 was only punted for QA reasons:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/167468

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA last rites for x11-wm/ion

[dev-random]

According to his website (AFAIR) that license is for _names_ "ion" and
"ion3". License for code is still GPL. If you rename the project, you may
ignore that terms.



On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 09:27:29AM +0100, Rémi Cardona wrote:
> Le 15/12/2009 08:09, Ulrich Mueller a écrit :
> >>>>>> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Peter Hjalmarsson wrote:
> >
> >> On the other hand this may be something for treecleaners? A package
> >> that has not been bumped for 7 years? With at least three releases
> >> since, and a bumprequest open for at least one year? A link to a
> >> webside that does not exist?
> >
> > And both its sucessors x11-wm/ion2 and x11-wm/ion3 already punted two
> > years ago.
> >
> > Wasn't there some licence issue with this package, too?
> 
> That was with ion3 IIRC. Something about the author changing the license 
> from GPL to "don't patch ion3 ever without telling me about it and 
> showing me your patches so I can approve them".
> 
> Or something similar, wikipedia/google might know more than me.
> 
> As far as the original ion is concerned, the masking seems perfectly in 
> order. If someone wants it, that person can step up and do the work 
> (directly or via proxy).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rémi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA last rites for x11-wm/ion

[Alistair Bush]

> Le 15/12/2009 08:09, Ulrich Mueller a écrit :
> >>>>>> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Peter Hjalmarsson wrote:
> >>
> >> On the other hand this may be something for treecleaners? A package
> >> that has not been bumped for 7 years? With at least three releases
> >> since, and a bumprequest open for at least one year? A link to a
> >> webside that does not exist?
> >
> > And both its sucessors x11-wm/ion2 and x11-wm/ion3 already punted two
> > years ago.
> >
> > Wasn't there some licence issue with this package, too?
> 
> That was with ion3 IIRC. Something about the author changing the license
> from GPL to "don't patch ion3 ever without telling me about it and
> showing me your patches so I can approve them".
> 
> Or something similar, wikipedia/google might know more than me.
> 
> As far as the original ion is concerned, the masking seems perfectly in
> order. If someone wants it, that person can step up and do the work
> (directly or via proxy).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rémi
> 

http://www.modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/

What an angry angry man.

Drop it!!