From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M4cGb-0002aY-Ns for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 May 2009 14:50:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CBF1BE06A8; Thu, 14 May 2009 14:50:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vms173019pub.verizon.net (vms173019pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.19]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA6A6E06A8 for ; Thu, 14 May 2009 14:50:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gw.thefreemanclan.net ([68.162.77.227]) by vms173019.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPA id <0KJN0052S2JWMSG5@vms173019.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 May 2009 09:50:25 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw.thefreemanclan.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 236621759D8A for ; Thu, 14 May 2009 10:50:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-id: <4A0C2FAB.2070603@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 10:50:19 -0400 From: Richard Freeman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090321) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Project proposal -- maintainer-wanted References: <1242261133.23088.82.camel@localhost> <200905141402.40992.hwoarang@gentoo.org> <1242311038.22615.17.camel@localhost> In-reply-to: <1242311038.22615.17.camel@localhost> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5a9e8bfd-5dc1-487b-a749-245f8d8fcd99 X-Archives-Hash: b4e62898e8190ef2be732bc88f69600a Mart Raudsepp wrote: > > Liking and using the package yourself shouldn't be a prerequisite for a > package getting to be in-tree by the maintainer-wanted team. How about actually maintaining the package? For example, user contributes ebuild for foo-1.0. I don't use it or like it, but I go ahead and throw it into portage. User logs bug that foo-1.0 wipes out random files from time to time. Nobody looks at said bug since nobody owns foo, and bug starts getting 3000 "me-too!" comments. Some charitable developer takes a look and the problem isn't obvious and offers to just mask the package. Now 3000 people running foo are upset for it being de-supported (when it wasn't supported in the first place). Wouldn't it make more sense for people who like the foo-1.0 ebuild to just stick it in their own ebuild or an overlay and be on their own (since they're really on their own either way)? Or to move it to sunrise or some other place where it might actually get some level of support? If Gentoo is going to distribute an ebuild Gentoo should Do-It-Right(TM). Why put our name on something we don't really want to care for?