Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Lastrite: games-fps/openarena

[Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>]

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On Friday 05 March 2010 17:06:21 Ben de Groot wrote:
> On 5 March 2010 15:22, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On Friday 05 March 2010 15:17:06 Ben de Groot wrote:
> >> So step up and maintain it!
> > 
> > games herd already maintains that package . At least this is what  I see
> > on metadata.xml
> 
> Nominally, yes. But if a package has open QA and security bugs and
> patches that have not been reviewed or even commented upon by the
> maintainer(s) for over 6 months, then you can't consider that package
> actually maintained. So for this package to remain in the tree, someone
> needs to step up and actually maintain it.
> 
> Cheers,
I assume that only members of QA can actually step up and fix the problem. 
Otherwise the games heard will complain that random devs are touching their 
packages. I just assume that but I am not willing to step into their 
"territory" and this is why I asked permission to touch the bug ( see my last 
comment on the bug )
-- 
Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
Gentoo Linux Developer
Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org

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