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 1S9pyy-00021C-1m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:43:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2ED23E0874; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:43:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vms173021pub.verizon.net (vms173021pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.21]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDBBBE0733 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:42:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from garath.homelinux.org ([unknown] [72.64.102.90]) by vms173021.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0M1500L4XZLQXDB0@vms173021.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:42:05 -0500 (CDT) Received: from lazarus.local.domain (lazarus.local.domain [192.168.1.5]) by garath.homelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 850AFF2042 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:41:39 -0500 (CDT) Message-id: <4F67FC7E.1020904@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:41:50 -0500 From: Paul Varner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 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] Packages up for grabs due jokey retirement References: <1332096606.21995.42.camel@belkin4> <4F675726.9070703@gentoo.org> <1332185196.9464.26.camel@belkin4> In-reply-to: <1332185196.9464.26.camel@belkin4> Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: e5745982-b54e-4d85-b8e6-2efdc5471d01 X-Archives-Hash: b65e41bcd6a733bcf350bde3c31d82fc On 3/19/12 2:26 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El lun, 19-03-2012 a las 10:56 -0500, Paul Varner escribi=C3=B3: >> On 03/18/12 13:50, Pacho Ramos wrote: >>> Due his retirement the following packages need a new maintainer: >>> >>> app-portage/maintainer-helper >>> >>> >>> Thanks for taking them >> >> I've added app-portage/maintainer-helper to the tools-portage herd, >> however, I've left it as maintainer-needed. So if anyone wants to tak= e >> it, feel free. The tools-portage herd will fix bugs for it as we find >> the time. > > I disagree with leaving maintainer-needed as default assign, if you wil= l > fix bugs when you have time it's better than what I will do with > maintainer-needed packages. Okay, I've taken out the maintainer-needed as the maintainer and have=20 just left it assigned to the herd. However, in reading through=20 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=3D2&chap=3D= 4, I=20 don't see a good mechanism to convey that the package is up for grabs,=20 but in the meantime go ahead and assign any bugs to the herd. Regards, Paul