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 A87C21387CA for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 14:52:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7BA1621C021; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 14:52:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-f179.google.com (mail-ie0-f179.google.com [209.85.223.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 85EBFE04AB for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 14:52:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f179.google.com with SMTP id k11so2250702iea.38 for ; Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:52:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=lLAz3UM5uFR3hNyvf4XNnA3IMjy0QpB04juvX0RPQB8=; b=aLO9JrJXb+9Ue61yDYH6+x4v2dIkiAI6RBWYrGLWJO7buPbFfrTWTlTHC7w3yMlsFk mwbactAuLxR7uUWw9QfVpFooIoZG6lx4CrSumFAngH22lv1pfmlIvDEA7MOqT4rDV9Ph uy8pA6u2VAwHHviuDSJI7cnC5y2QGrAbiXoG9Rpx7NcFyc/b+MQNFWTvo98SD1cqjpMX o9BliKEqJ6Veas26P/mMH661+ccFP3qgei+v/6YcreYGvyzVt4gxIi/QLf78Y1ehTBFv 06SUAzBs/5e53AJzzHDURJANdDn7FH5h4lNA8zjl1sJg+aQvlrm+6xE/wHSUM+s3Q6TA /uqA== 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 10.50.213.42 with SMTP id np10mr1307242igc.47.1359730336769; Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:52:16 -0800 (PST) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.64.30.231 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 06:52:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 09:52:16 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Sf37yEstxRwFx5vrfiKooWFp8Ag Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Removals reply (I am not going to figure out which tread of those all should i reply to) From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 1130eefb-303d-460a-a6bf-7e488a9ade24 X-Archives-Hash: d502601eb0e44728369bb82d95cba574 On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Tom=C3=A1=C5=A1 Chv=C3=A1tal wrote: > If you as developers and users find some package useful you can retake > the maintainership (or became proxy-maint) which also expects you to > take care of the bugs (QA can prune it even if you take the > maintainership but ignore failures [even if your personal feeling is > that it is corner case, it is for QA to deicde]). Citation? I don't see any GLEPs or other Council-approved policies to that effect. And this is of course why nobody actually wants to maintain these packages - everybody is going to be looking over your shoulder because they've already decided that the existence of the package bothers them. Honestly, threads like this bug me so much that I'm half-tempted to take over maintainership of one of these packages just to be a test case... Ugh - time for an email break... Rich