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 1Q3mS8-0008UM-Rb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 09:40:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E64C11C0CD; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 09:39:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E62251C0B3 for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 09:39:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so2032390wyi.40 for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:39:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=OQ1wcghQqsdDqrOzY3ljuFb83GAA6rm5QeI/wwMcTQU=; b=ImGGGnhOw5DcSWIU3NInZntVtIsqi/A1KqQP/37xSAEZlCQRQCw8k7WBPi4nTWSBGJ YtPksKJnspg/zZFzTjws7GGcMn2JmNu99ZogGLGmt2ANKF4mdduaQpRY20cmdxiS+Yt4 819ZNjTTFKVCJ0pYAmSnLT/o3H+An6OOGoFEc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; b=XAJJHyr28Arbz03KDzrdPjPrHOwHPqh5nA4MFYLjiuPYD63aelhDnQVSY23+aqXEuQ 5z6G86j7cSN8ZbrKE4pYd8ZLMWO+BnkOrHHYwWJRL4/Cy8qMPmHHPHjCblCH7U67P6/G i4jzJ27UUe29FIfqGvbVaL9x7ctJ4VWL0Itcw= Received: by 10.216.253.227 with SMTP id f77mr2521752wes.86.1301218769110; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:39:29 -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 Sender: nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com Received: by 10.216.93.197 with HTTP; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:39:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110327102927.GA14498@Eternity> References: <20110326055210.E906D20054@flycatcher.gentoo.org> <4D8EC104.4090503@gentoo.org> <20110327102927.GA14498@Eternity> From: Nirbheek Chauhan Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:09:09 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4NFe762GLwGdWaby-VGbBi_qFxM Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/PyZilla: PyZilla-0.1.0.ebuild ChangeLog metadata.xml To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Markos Chandras Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 84a7f23334b6affe8f343714eec3f747 On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Markos Chandras 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 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