Re: [gentoo-dev] How about a monthly bumpday?

[Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>]

On Wednesday 10 March 2010 16:41:59 Mark Loeser wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> said:
> > On Tuesday 09 March 2010 23:08:24 Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> > > We have about 500 bump request open at the moment:
> > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=bump
> > > 
> > > I assume that quite a few of them would be no big deal to their
> > > maintainers in Gentoo.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Bugday is occupying the first Saturday of the month: how about bumpday
> > > on the third Saturday of the month?  First bumpday could be March 20th,
> > > 10 days from now.
> > > 
> > > What do you think?
> > 
> > for the maintainer-needed ones, np.  for the ones with maintainers, i
> > think you need an ack from someone first.
> 
> I don't even think the maintainer-needed ones should be bumped.  Who
> knows what bugs you are introducing into the tree.  This is why things
> eventually get treecleaned.
I run occasionally the maintainer-needed list and bump those packages ( and 
YES I try to do proper bumps not just renaming the ebuilds ), so yes 
maintainer-needed package could get some love as well :)


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