From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6B411381F3 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:07:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7161CE0B35; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:07:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 94A47E0AEC for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:07:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.160] (CPE002401f30b73-CM001cea3ddad8.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.224.181.112]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: axs) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9FD2F33F37F for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:07:52 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <52653521.9080301@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:07:29 -0400 From: Ian Stakenvicius User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20131005 Thunderbird/17.0.9 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] Packages up for grabs References: <1382196771.24878.25.camel@belkin5> <5262A8BB.1030409@sporkbox.us> <20131019161050.GA21091@earth.members.linode.com> <5262AFFB.7000408@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <5262AFFB.7000408@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 90c556da-2458-44bd-8101-25f0be8ca2c2 X-Archives-Hash: 64011dd1e3f19c781d29ef451b0a7bee -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 19/10/13 12:14 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 10/19/2013 12:10 PM, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: >> On 10:43 Sat 19 Oct , Daniel Campbell wrote: >>> On 10/19/2013 10:32 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: ... >>>> x11-wm/fluxbox >>> I'm not a developer (but have a completed dev test that doesn't >>> know where to go...). I'm interested in nabbing x11-wm/fluxbox >>> (and any related projects that are still alive). I use Fluxbox >>> daily and keep an eye on upstream. It'd be nice to be able to >>> contribute something worthwhile to Gentoo, even if it's just >>> one package (for now). >> I'll add myself to fluxbox and probably everything related to >> fluxbox but as u know I'm not so active nowadays so anyone who is >> willing, should add him/herself too. >> >> @Daniel, you can help by proxy-maintaining fluxbox or if you want >> to become a gentoo developer I can mentor you if you don't find >> someone else in your timezone. >> >> By the way, are you sure, guys, you want to remove the desktop-wm >> herd at all? >> > > I'm worried about removing desktop-wm. I think we need some new > developers in that direction. I too am busy, but I think the best > use of my time might be mentoring new devs that want to pick up > some of the weak areas. > > --Tony > If the herd is essentially empty, I think it probably makes more sense for the packages to get split up across specific developers; at least then they'll be tracked by people that are at least somewhat involved and committed to them rather than hiding the fact that we only have partial coverage of all these packages under a herd. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlJlNSEACgkQ2ugaI38ACPD/MgD9Gj4D58F54//hkeyUw3k3uMTS wAGFKLrMqLRgEi/6UlkBAL/nZdAQhwaBQipwbpenhDWfyl7sVTdgB3SeH02X5yBn =KqcC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----