From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/PyZilla: PyZilla-0.1.0.ebuild ChangeLog metadata.xml
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:09:09 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimnhZ1Xjj+meRTickhDh_GOL7o-HdxGfj+=ZxGi@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110327102927.GA14498@Eternity>
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 01:17:46PM +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Jeremy Olexa <darkside@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
> Uhm no. The fact that nobody takes care of it doesn't necessarily mean
> that the package is broken and that it should be removed
>
I never said that such packages were broken. I'm saying that if no one
wants to maintain them, they probably aren't needed by anyone, and we
should clean such cruft from the tree.
If they *are* needed by someone, then those folks should come forward
to maintain it.
--
~Nirbheek Chauhan
Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team
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2011-03-27 4:45 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/PyZilla: PyZilla-0.1.0.ebuild ChangeLog metadata.xml Jeremy Olexa
2011-03-27 7:47 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-03-27 10:29 ` Markos Chandras
2011-03-27 9:39 ` Nirbheek Chauhan [this message]
2011-03-27 13:04 ` Treeclean all maintainer-needed packages, was: " Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2011-03-27 15:37 ` Ryan Hill
2011-03-27 13:30 ` Jeremy Olexa
2011-03-27 13:43 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-03-27 19:17 ` Alec Warner
2011-03-27 19:40 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-03-27 20:17 ` Alec Warner
2011-03-27 21:25 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-03-27 23:34 ` Ryan Hill
2011-03-28 1:59 ` Donnie Berkholz
2011-03-27 20:44 ` Rich Freeman
2011-03-27 21:09 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-03-28 1:58 ` Donnie Berkholz
2011-03-27 21:28 ` René 'Necoro' Neumann
2011-04-05 4:26 ` Jeroen Roovers
2011-04-05 10:58 ` Alec Warner
2011-04-05 15:08 ` Jeroen Roovers
2011-04-18 17:56 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2011-03-27 13:44 ` Rich Freeman
2011-03-27 14:54 ` Tomáš Chvátal
2011-03-27 16:18 ` Rich Freeman
2011-03-27 14:08 ` Maintainership offering; was: " René 'Necoro' Neumann
2011-03-27 19:05 ` Jeremy Olexa
2011-03-27 20:20 ` Proxy maintainership of app-misc/pwsafe, was " Christopher Head
2011-03-27 20:47 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-03-27 20:55 ` René 'Necoro' Neumann
2011-03-27 20:55 ` David Abbott
2011-03-27 21:32 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-03-29 17:50 ` Dirkjan Ochtman
2011-03-29 13:33 ` Jeroen Roovers
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