From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NWdaV-0003Lm-VK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:27:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6CEDFE071E; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:26:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wp165.webpack.hosteurope.de (wp165.webpack.hosteurope.de [80.237.132.172]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 423A2E0730 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:26:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 84-238-114-252.u.parknet.dk ([84.238.114.252] helo=marsupilami.localnet); authenticated by wp165.webpack.hosteurope.de running ExIM with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) id 1NWda3-0004g1-JS; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:26:47 +0100 From: Thilo Bangert To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:25:40 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.31.11; KDE/4.3.4; i686; ; ) References: <201001112305.16532.hwoarang@gentoo.org> <201001172120.48648.bangert@gentoo.org> <201001171612.29206.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <201001171612.29206.vapier@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3957647.lP47BiXpX7"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201001172325.47747.bangert@gentoo.org> X-bounce-key: webpack.hosteurope.de;bangert@gentoo.org;1263767208;2ede4a0c; X-Archives-Salt: 3c8b368c-d9a0-498d-8a77-222040ffadbd X-Archives-Hash: 014eb51fd4644efbc06ad17e48ae97ed --nextPart3957647.lP47BiXpX7 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mike Frysinger said: > On Sunday 17 January 2010 15:20:46 Thilo Bangert wrote: > > Ben de Groot 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)... >=20 > 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,=20 that many apparently maintained packages have simple bugs lingering for=20 extended periods of time. Fx. users reporting bugs AND supplying fixes,=20 ready to be committed. i dont want to step on anyones toes, which is why this may need to be put=20 in place carefully - but i do think it would improve average quality of=20 the tree. the easy stuff, that is maintainer-needed is done regularly by a number of= =20 people. of course, "easy stuff" is different for different people. the SIMPLE keyword would definitively work, though. can somebody add it to= =20 bugzilla? thanks Thilo > -mike >=20 --nextPart3957647.lP47BiXpX7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAktTjmsACgkQxRElEoA5Ane5oQCgzD9CqX/wAwIRVA8R8zfivHlf 0ZAAoJa19iJ+G8/JU8DtspSOVDZPjUka =Y9+x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3957647.lP47BiXpX7--