Re: [gentoo-dev] Fixing elasticsearch maintainer

[Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Ohey,
>
> as you might have noticed I've just corrected the metadata.xml of all
> elasticsearch-related packages.
> For some strange reason I was listed there as maintainer, but since no one
> wanted to listen to my ideas I guess I wasn't. So now last person who
> touched it gets stuck with it.
>
> Since proxy-maint refuses to be removed from packages (especially since
> they were unconditionally added to all packages with a non-gentoo-dev
> maintainer in metadata) they are the de facto maintainers, and overrule
> everything else.
> I've tried multiple strategies including removing them from metadata, but
> ... see app-admin/elasticsearch, proxy-maint is like the toe fungus that
> always comes back (e.g. commit f0925c10834464e62ce7209f2afa7797b594d350 )
>
> Sometimes it's almost absurdly funny, especially when you commit
> RESTRICT="test" because tests fail reliably just to have that reverted.
> (See dev-python/elasticsearch-py )
>
> Bonus mention:
> bbdc5412061adf598ed935697441a7d6b05f7614
>     app-admin/logstash-bin: drop old
>
>     Signed-off-by: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@gentoo.org>
>
> That removed the versions I was using, so I better maintain the versions I
> use in an overlay. Well ok then.
>

I don't quite get this gripe. Gentoo is a rolling distro. Versions of
things "you are using" get removed and replaced with newer versions all the
time. Why is this a big deal now?

-A


>
> Since I, as maintainer, can't ... anything, well [CENSORED] this, now they
> are your packages. Don't try to reassign or drop them: You've demanded,
> insisted, to be maintainers ... wish granted.
>
> So, err, well, is like ... wtf? I'm not sure how this all makes sense, but
> it's Not My Problem now. Take care now, bye bye then.
>
> Oh, and Erki Ferenc was in metadata too, he's been inactive but told me
> that he wants to continue maintaining these packages in the near future. If
> he asks I'd recommend adding him back.
>
> Patrick
>
> P.S. If this sounds a bit incoherent, well ... the whole situation is, I
> have no idea what's going on or why I was in metadata ;)
>
>

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