From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Jeremy Olexa <darkside@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:33:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201001121533.08479.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b5d5dafbf3ba71d02f87c4bcaecd8bf4@jolexa.net>
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On Monday 11 January 2010 22:43:18 Jeremy Olexa wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:36:37 -0500, Richard Freeman wrote:
> > On 01/11/2010 06:30 PM, Arnaud Launay wrote:
> >> As a newsmaster, I'm a bit concerned by this.
> >
> > Yeah, inn seems like a really high-profile package to mask for removal.
> > It would be conspicuous in its absence.
> >
> > Would it make sense to post on -dev BEFORE masking packages like this?
> > I'm sure there are lots of people who would chip in before something
> > like this dies.
>
> (A general reply, not targeted towards you, Rich)
>
> Speaking on behalf of the treecleaners:
> The fact is, some of us have never heard of "inn" and until Gentoo has
> some sort of "popularity tracking" software/tool, the treecleaners will
> continue to mask unmaintained software. We can't possible know about every
> package in the tree and if it looks like it is unmaintained (open bugs w/o
> action) then we will mask it for removal unless someone fixes it and
> maintains it.
you need to fix your filter then. an "open bug" is not an acceptable reason
for masking a package. if you're going to clean a package, you need to
research actual reasons to mask & punt.
-mike
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Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-11 21:05 [gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-nntp/inn Markos Chandras
2010-01-11 22:31 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-01-12 1:00 ` Jeroen Roovers
2010-01-12 20:31 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-01-11 23:30 ` [gentoo-dev] " Arnaud Launay
2010-01-12 1:02 ` Jeroen Roovers
2010-01-12 2:22 ` Jeroen Roovers
2010-01-12 5:03 ` [gentoo-dev] Thanks for the rescue! Was: " Duncan
2010-01-12 16:32 ` [gentoo-dev] " Markos Chandras
2010-01-12 18:21 ` Jeroen Roovers
2010-01-12 18:30 ` Markos Chandras
2010-01-12 19:07 ` Richard Freeman
2010-01-12 22:37 ` Duncan
2010-01-13 1:18 ` Arnaud Launay
2010-01-13 5:52 ` Jeroen Roovers
2010-01-13 15:06 ` Arnaud Launay
2010-01-13 16:31 ` Richard Freeman
2010-01-13 5:48 ` Jeroen Roovers
2010-01-13 8:05 ` Duncan
2010-01-12 19:40 ` Arnaud Launay
2010-01-12 19:49 ` Markos Chandras
2010-01-12 20:35 ` Ben de Groot
2010-01-12 22:24 ` Duncan
2010-01-13 15:54 ` [gentoo-dev] proxy maintainership and gentoo-x86 scm Mike Frysinger
2010-01-13 21:02 ` Ben de Groot
2010-01-13 21:18 ` justin
2010-01-13 22:03 ` [gentoo-dev] " Christian Faulhammer
2010-01-14 13:30 ` [gentoo-dev] " Markos Chandras
2010-01-14 16:35 ` Ben de Groot
2010-01-14 12:49 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2010-01-14 13:47 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-01-14 22:10 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2010-01-15 13:17 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-01-14 16:24 ` Ben de Groot
2010-01-14 17:04 ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2010-01-14 19:46 ` Pacho Ramos
2010-01-14 22:53 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2010-01-14 20:31 ` Daniel Bradshaw
2010-01-14 22:21 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2010-01-14 22:29 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2010-01-14 22:54 ` Robin H. Johnson
2010-01-14 23:25 ` Petteri Räty
2010-01-15 8:32 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-01-14 23:28 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2010-01-19 22:29 ` Arun Raghavan
2010-01-14 22:32 ` Daniel Bradshaw
2010-01-15 0:07 ` [gentoo-dev] " Paul Arthur
2010-01-15 0:47 ` Robin H. Johnson
2010-01-15 7:53 ` [gentoo-dev] " Max Arnold
2010-01-15 15:50 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn Victor Ostorga
2010-01-15 16:09 ` Ben de Groot
2010-01-17 20:20 ` Thilo Bangert
2010-01-17 20:44 ` Richard Freeman
2010-01-17 21:12 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-01-17 22:25 ` Thilo Bangert
2010-01-18 1:23 ` Ben de Groot
2010-01-18 2:17 ` Richard Freeman
2010-01-20 13:49 ` Petteri Räty
2010-01-12 1:10 ` Duncan
2010-01-12 1:36 ` Richard Freeman
2010-01-12 3:43 ` Jeremy Olexa
2010-01-12 18:01 ` Richard Freeman
2010-01-12 20:33 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2010-01-12 20:51 ` Tomáš Chvátal
2010-01-12 21:39 ` Denis Dupeyron
2010-01-13 5:45 ` Jeroen Roovers
2010-01-13 14:24 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-01-13 16:27 ` Richard Freeman
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