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 1Q3q3a-0008WN-Cb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:31:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B9AFE1C00B; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:30:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 829A0E05E8 for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:30:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.105] (c-75-72-21-149.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [75.72.21.149]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: darkside) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F01A41B4039 for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:30:18 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4D8F3BE8.5050300@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:30:16 -0500 From: Jeremy Olexa User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110324 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.9 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] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/PyZilla: PyZilla-0.1.0.ebuild ChangeLog metadata.xml References: <20110326055210.E906D20054@flycatcher.gentoo.org> <4D8EC104.4090503@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 96a2b87fc1fa2b95bffc3dc0031353bd On 03/27/2011 02:47 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Jeremy Olexa wrote: >> On 03/26/2011 12:52 AM, Mike Frysinger (vapier) wrote: >> >>> Index: metadata.xml >>> =================================================================== >>> >>> >>> >>> no-herd >>> >>> maintainer-needed@gentoo.org >>> >>> >> >> Can this practice of adding m-n packages to gentoo-x86 be stopped? If you >> add it, take responsibility for it, please. If you don't want to take >> responsibility for it, at least find a team that is willing to look after >> it. >> > > If you prohibit people from doing that, they'll just commit it > normally, and then remove themselves a week later. Why does anyone need to *add* a package that is maintainer-needed? This is one of the problems of the gentoo-x86 tree - too many maintainer-needed packages. It is a bad thing for our users because when they submit bugs and/or fixes, they go [generally] unnoticed for ages. Also, as you may know, the treecleaner team is constantly "fighting" with removing m-n packages. The tree has 679 m-n packages. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners/maintainer-needed.xml > > I propose that we should be more aggressive about package.masking (for > removal) all maintainer-needed packages from the tree by doing that > one month after they become maintainer-needed. If someone doesn't > volunteer to take care of it, it probably wasn't important anyway. > That is abit extreme for me (read: I don't have motivation to fight the flames), but I wouldn't complain if someone else did it to be honest. -Jeremy