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 EE7D0138804 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 20:42:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5ED5DE04E7; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 20:42:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ia0-f180.google.com (mail-ia0-f180.google.com [209.85.210.180]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 71EA3E01BE for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 20:42:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ia0-f180.google.com with SMTP id f27so6649079iae.25 for ; Sat, 02 Feb 2013 12:42:20 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=ewup+4wxhe242aKEs2ZjghtQHTOD0XMETbtyv1pKrDE=; b=dsvIw9XufRc93n9nfAh8KlyGNsTKJEyg8g4oaRxrQbFlQLVwxA/XZeDiJuNKTkjNzW hJxde8wOUDSVLw9ZlR3rl7Zkbq4Bg5lIzAPCEr47uIsIfrEG8R7nlpLamzRl6emqtVY+ nU4N89nsrm1mykyOsGumBCdFKIomdqVPGmSO7c4uIuB3lwTbVqxqeHNo4cwZhlRb3A9l Ha6+1OTwTr+c3oag9V7e5s34eyGgratwKLB6gJGwr/gXEu6xzFBPbGNVbBx2LveS9Bn1 0UaqOdZpUdJoGMhzXwQ3UJq/643IitZKg6lTRe0YZTBKOack+3zB9HQA60ht7HGzBxCW 9zig== 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 X-Received: by 10.50.222.232 with SMTP id qp8mr1947905igc.25.1359837740668; Sat, 02 Feb 2013 12:42:20 -0800 (PST) Sender: antarus@scriptkitty.com Received: by 10.64.59.133 with HTTP; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 12:42:20 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [75.147.136.182] In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 12:42:20 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ZPMe_6CWb3yy00x8sE8FOSBp5nU Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Please stop useless removals From: Alec Warner To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQk4tOUeJx9zqbzprIfNAq+e6DfDIL4cZMat9LRHYwnyFTu0q3BdnZrWTGLov+p4kNxQ1ley X-Archives-Salt: e6551114-2ce0-45a5-8aa7-fd033dd46b60 X-Archives-Hash: d215cb6ac13b5dad9d4596e0a011f832 On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 10:14 AM, James Cloos wrote: >>>>>> "AW" == Alec Warner writes: > > AW> If folks do not want to maintain it anymore, then it will be removed. > > That is about as harmful an attitude as possible. > > If you don't personally care about a package just leave it alone! The point of treecleaners is to clean stuff that is broken. They shouldn't be removing packages that do not work. That being said, if it doesn't work and no one is willing to maintain it, it doesn't belong in the tree. > > And if you want more maintainers, then drop the schoolkid nonsense to > join the club. If this is some opaque comment about how it should easier to contribute to Gentoo (including being a proxy maintainer) then I couldn't agree more. That being said after looking at what it takes to become a debian developer or ubuntu developer...I don't think our process is any more onerous than those. > > -JimC > -- > James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6 >