Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: ChangeLog package.mask

[Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org>]

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On 23 April 2013 11:58, Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:56:49 +0800
> Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> > > I suppose you talked with Michal about this and couldn't reach an
> > > agreement, like him joining the fonts herd, or at least the mail alias
> > > to monitor ft/fc bugs.
> > >
> > > If you want I can join the fonts herd also, I already have a foot in
> > > there for some small packages used within texlive anyway.
> > >
> >
> > We could certainly use a hand in fonts herd. Most members have
> > left or are on extended non-active status. It's just lu_zero (and I am
> > not sure how active he is wrt fonts packages, but it certainly doesn't
> > cover freetype and fontconfig) and me.
>
> As the previous maintainer of these packages, I think they should be
> maintained
> by the x11 team as well as fonts.  Fonts has been dead for a while and
> freetype
> at least needs a dedicated maintainer.
>

Fonts herd isn't dead, but most of the member have dispersed. Matsuu and
pva are
inactive, and lu_zero is busy with other things it seems. So that leaves
me. I've
always had an interest in fonts, so I'm happy to do this, but I don't have
the time
to properly maintain all packages belonging to the herd. So help is more
than
welcome.


> No offense to lu_zero, but he has a habit of popping in, applying some
> non-upstreamed patch to a critical project, and then disappearing again.
>
> On the other hand, you applied infinality, so you're not on my favorite
> people
> list either.  :P


We'll need to agree to disagree then. Anyway, no one was taking care of
freetype
and fontconfig at the time I picked up maintenance. So there you have it.

I would be happy to have someone join the fonts team and co-maintain
freetype and fontconfig. I just want to make sure infinality will remain
available to our users.

-- 
Cheers,

Ben | yngwin
Gentoo developer
Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin

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