From: "Marty E. Plummer" <hanetzer@startmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 03:55:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180623085550.ucvzlz26riiniwej@proprietary-killer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a50e24c-8051-bb8f-8959-6476cf9015b9@gentoo.org>
On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 10:15:06AM +0200, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote:
> On 23/06/2018 09:43, Mikle Kolyada wrote:
> > But how would it serve gentoo itself? Lots of packages in the distro
> > have dead upstream but still work.
> > Why would you want to make gentoo an upstream area rather than moving a
> > dead project itself, say,
> > to github and do the job there?
>
> +1
>
> I like the idea of taking responsibility for the abandoned packages that
> are still useful.
>
> It's probably not Gentoo-specific, so a distro-neutral way of handling
> that seems most appropriate.
>
> It may even be worth it to coordinate with other distros (and maybe
> downstreams) so that the new version becomes a standard.
>
> Finally, having more than one person on this (to help continuity), and a
> common platform like GitHub also seem very helpful.
>
> Paweł
>
Agreed in general; the problem is getting it started at all; difficult
to get other distros to join if there is nothing to join.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-23 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-23 2:50 [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs Marty E. Plummer
2018-06-23 2:57 ` Marty E. Plummer
2018-06-23 13:05 ` Jonas Stein
2018-08-05 16:55 ` Richard Yao
2018-06-23 7:22 ` Michał Górny
2018-06-23 7:30 ` Marty E. Plummer
2018-06-23 7:37 ` Michał Górny
2018-06-23 10:59 ` Alec Warner
2018-08-05 16:45 ` Richard Yao
2018-08-05 17:01 ` Alec Warner
2018-08-05 17:16 ` M. J. Everitt
2018-08-05 17:24 ` Rich Freeman
2018-08-05 17:31 ` M. J. Everitt
2018-08-05 18:12 ` Richard Yao
2018-08-05 18:35 ` Rich Freeman
2018-08-05 20:49 ` Richard Yao
2018-08-05 18:06 ` Richard Yao
2018-06-23 7:43 ` Mikle Kolyada
2018-06-23 8:15 ` Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
2018-06-23 8:55 ` Marty E. Plummer [this message]
2018-06-23 11:06 ` Roy Bamford
2018-06-23 23:52 ` Kent Fredric
2018-06-25 5:59 ` Hanno Böck
2018-06-27 0:03 ` Marty E. Plummer
2018-08-04 8:43 ` mcrypt status (Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs) Andrew Savchenko
2018-08-04 9:51 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: mcrypt status Martin Vaeth
2018-08-04 10:22 ` Andrew Savchenko
2018-08-04 14:29 ` mcrypt status (Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs) Hanno Böck
2018-08-04 15:25 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2018-08-05 4:57 ` Andrew Savchenko
2018-08-04 18:05 ` Marty E. Plummer
2018-08-04 19:22 ` Andrew Savchenko
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