Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

[Thilo Bangert <bangert@gentoo.org>]

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Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> said:
> On Sunday 17 January 2010 15:20:46 Thilo Bangert wrote:
> > Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org> said:
> > > I think we have a bigger problem with packages that have a
> > > maintainer, at least nominally, but said maintainer does not
> > > actually maintain the package anymore.
> >
> > full ack. i was thinking that maybe we need an 'easy-fix' team, which
> > can do all the easy fixes, which have been laying around for way too
> > long and which aparently are "easy to fix" (ie. only waiting for
> > somebody to commit)...
> 
> when the bug wranglers re-assign to maintainer-needed, have them tag it
>  with SIMPLE or something

no - i wasn't talking about maintainer-needed bugs. it is my impression, 
that many apparently maintained packages have simple bugs lingering for 
extended periods of time. Fx. users reporting bugs AND supplying fixes, 
ready to be committed.

i dont want to step on anyones toes, which is why this may need to be put 
in place carefully - but i do think it would improve average quality of 
the tree.

the easy stuff, that is maintainer-needed is done regularly by a number of 
people. of course, "easy stuff" is different for different people.

the SIMPLE keyword would definitively work, though. can somebody add it to 
bugzilla?

thanks
Thilo

> -mike
> 


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