Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/cuneiform

[Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>]

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On 03/24/2013 01:52 PM, Peter Stuge wrote:
> Users who want to fix the problem need to get involved upstream, 
> there is no disagreement about that, but users who have already 
> gotten a package masked by the powers that be are vastly less 
> motivated to do so, because the package has already been masked.

Mask != removed.

> 
> Masking communicates that a decision to treeclean has been made.
That's your opinion. The masked message says "removal in 30 days"
meaning something can change in these 30 days. If you want me to write
an essay on every package.mask, sorry it's not going to happen. Deal
with it.

> 
> Masking is not at all communicating an opportunity to address the 
> perceived problems. That should be done in a different way.

The masked message says why the package is removed. So fixed the
aforementioned bugs and the package will stay.

> 
> A per-ebuild bug metric would be cool. A kind of health indicator 
> for individual ebuilds, alerting users when some of our installed 
> ebuilds go yellow, so that we have perhaps on the order of six 
> months before the package goes red, at which point it would be
> fine to mask at will. Does that make sense? (Obviously how many
> months yellow is depends on what else happens in the tree. It's a
> ballpark figure.)
> 

No we don't have the human resources to do that.

- -- 
Regards,
Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer
http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang
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