From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.47]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5DHGc73001755 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:16:38 GMT Received: from aamta10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050613171708.LITC6745.mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:17:08 +0100 Received: from zog.reactivated.net ([81.99.81.161]) by aamta10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050613171708.OXBT24546.aamta10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@zog.reactivated.net> for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:17:08 +0100 Received: from [192.168.0.2] (dsd [192.168.0.2]) by zog.reactivated.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D30D14B144D for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:36:01 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <42ADBF98.6010208@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:17:12 +0100 From: Daniel Drake User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050403) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: New Bugzilla resolution: NEEDMAINTAINER References: <1118630128.32687.14.camel@powerix.local.c0ffeine.de> In-Reply-To: <1118630128.32687.14.camel@powerix.local.c0ffeine.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 69b94fa0-674a-4b8f-a3a6-3b9a46007364 X-Archives-Hash: 93c373b4652b5885b8302cc260856d6c Markus Nigbur wrote: > Anyway, as I've already said I'm the _currently_ the only active herd > member and simply cannot take the responsibility of about 100 new > packages. > Therefor I suggest introducing a new keyword to bugzilla's resolution > list, called NEEDMAINTAINER. > With this new keyword everyone could compile a list of currently > unmaintained packages and just take the ones he likes. Additionally this > would be a great opportunity for non-developers for starting their > carrier within Gentoo. I like the concept but I think that a previous suggestion that was discussed here was better. The suggestion was to create a maintainer-needed@gentoo.org alias which bugs could be assigned to. The discussion was a while ago but I don't recall any negative points being raised. Daniel -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list