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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs
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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.