[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: virtual/{cron,dev-manager,inetd,libc,linux-sources,man,os-headers,package-manager,skkserv,ssh,w3m}

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: virtual/{cron,dev-manager,inetd,libc,linux-sources,man,os-headers,package-manager,skkserv,ssh,w3m}

[Ulrich Mueller]

Hi,

In the course of the old-style to new-style transition of virtuals,
I had taken maintainership of several new-style virtual packages.

After several months have passed without any bugs showing up, I
believe it's time that I drop maintainership of these:

   virtual/cron
   virtual/dev-manager
   virtual/inetd
   virtual/libc
   virtual/linux-sources
   virtual/man
   virtual/os-headers
   virtual/package-manager
   virtual/skkserv
   virtual/ssh
   virtual/w3m

As these are virtuals, I won't expect that there will be much
maintenance required. Also, all of them will fall back to (at least)
one herd. Please check the respective metadata.xml files for details.

Ulrich

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: virtual/{cron,dev-manager,inetd,libc,linux-sources,man,os-headers,package-manager,skkserv,ssh,w3m}

[Anthony G. Basile]

On 09/22/2011 04:53 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>    virtual/linux-sources
>
I can take this one if the kernel herd is okay with that.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: virtual/{cron,dev-manager,inetd,libc,linux-sources,man,os-headers,package-manager,skkserv,ssh,w3m}

[Tim Harder]

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On 2011-09-22 Thu 01:53, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> In the course of the old-style to new-style transition of virtuals,
> I had taken maintainership of several new-style virtual packages.

> After several months have passed without any bugs showing up, I
> believe it's time that I drop maintainership of these:

>    virtual/cron
>    virtual/dev-manager
>    virtual/inetd
>    virtual/libc
>    virtual/linux-sources
>    virtual/man
>    virtual/os-headers
>    virtual/package-manager
>    virtual/skkserv
>    virtual/ssh
>    virtual/w3m

> As these are virtuals, I won't expect that there will be much
> maintenance required. Also, all of them will fall back to (at least)
> one herd. Please check the respective metadata.xml files for details.

Personally I don't see why all of these need specific maintainers beyond
the herds they fall under already, especially if they are very low
maintenance.

Tim

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: virtual/{cron,dev-manager,inetd,libc,linux-sources,man,os-headers,package-manager,skkserv,ssh,w3m}

[Mike Frysinger]

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On Thursday, September 22, 2011 14:23:55 Tim Harder wrote:
> On 2011-09-22 Thu 01:53, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > In the course of the old-style to new-style transition of virtuals,
> > I had taken maintainership of several new-style virtual packages.
> > 
> > After several months have passed without any bugs showing up, I
> > 
> > believe it's time that I drop maintainership of these:
> >    virtual/cron
> >    virtual/dev-manager
> >    virtual/inetd
> >    virtual/libc
> >    virtual/linux-sources
> >    virtual/man
> >    virtual/os-headers
> >    virtual/package-manager
> >    virtual/skkserv
> >    virtual/ssh
> >    virtual/w3m
> > 
> > As these are virtuals, I won't expect that there will be much
> > maintenance required. Also, all of them will fall back to (at least)
> > one herd. Please check the respective metadata.xml files for details.
> 
> Personally I don't see why all of these need specific maintainers beyond
> the herds they fall under already, especially if they are very low
> maintenance.

right.  if they don't have herds, then almost all of these are obvious as to 
which they should get added to.
-mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: virtual/{cron,dev-manager,inetd,libc,linux-sources,man,os-headers,package-manager,skkserv,ssh,w3m}

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, Tim Harder wrote:

>> As these are virtuals, I won't expect that there will be much
>> maintenance required. Also, all of them will fall back to (at
>> least) one herd.

> Personally I don't see why all of these need specific maintainers
> beyond the herds they fall under already, especially if they are
> very low maintenance.

Right, but still I think that a heads-up should be sent in such
a case, instead of silently removing oneself from metadata.

Ulrich