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 1Oaa7J-0005J4-NY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:05:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 00154E0AC7; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:05:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A2EAE0AB4 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:05:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws15 with SMTP id 15so4809153vws.40 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:05:18 -0700 (PDT) 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 Received: by 10.220.171.211 with SMTP id i19mr2467451vcz.252.1279483518616; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:05:18 -0700 (PDT) Sender: cardoe@cardoe.com Received: by 10.220.191.11 with HTTP; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:05:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100717172848.45a71984@gentoo.org> References: <4C420B5D.4040302@gentoo.org> <4C421127.30508@gentoo.org> <20100717172848.45a71984@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:05:18 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: VO_dhJ-bb0znKDtb63QQw7B3D7k Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: eclass/php5_1.eclass From: Doug Goldstein To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: c365c8aa-ef88-4f84-b225-6b0dcb421a69 X-Archives-Hash: 1178ede4acc7d1dda5e5bce947157b4c On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:23:03 +0200 > Matti Bickel wrote: > >> On 07/17/2010 09:58 PM, Matti Bickel wrote: >> > since there's no dev-lang/php-5.1* version in the tree anymore, this >> > eclass is useless. It will be removed on 17th August 2010. >> >> I've just been told by scarabeus that eclass removal is a two years >> minimum process. So it'll be removed 17th August 2012 and marked #@DEAD >> (deprived of functionality) in the next days. > > /me shakes his fist once again at the inanity of this policy. > > Just remove it! If the council can not be bothered to help developers develop but instead hinder developers from developing, then they are no longer relevant and should be treated as such. Other course of action could always be that they should all be kicked out and replaced with a suitable organization to ensure Gentoo's technical and developmental success. -- Doug Goldstein