From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EvPnN-0000XQ-Iu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2006 01:56:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k081tIMK012858; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 01:55:18 GMT Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.200]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k081q2Hx025073 for ; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 01:52:02 GMT Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id o25so1424950nfa for ; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 17:51:28 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=suuf3BFJbXgDuqH/guNiWaem6XWojRcBGHM4yXuKviibHc1n2UpEODKbzCWmA6N6P591GxhlL1Htuk+1KIN5u/Ig+6CndXUol+F0Bn2uZne+9RzyVF4QqY4zbkxfTilq+eQIeST2nE8Blv4q5jjV5SpX34oSIg4H6c0OdgH7zoU= Received: by 10.48.49.20 with SMTP id w20mr831296nfw; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:35:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.48.216.14 with HTTP; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 16:35:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 00:35:02 +0000 From: Stuart Herbert To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January In-Reply-To: <200601080115.31137.carlo@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <200601011053.k01ArjOh019213@robin.gentoo.org> <200601080115.31137.carlo@gentoo.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k081q2Hx025073 X-Archives-Salt: e6902caa-5f30-491c-9f14-25421ec28162 X-Archives-Hash: 7e366d792a8d50658bd14910de4902ee On 1/8/06, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > I think I'm too late for this month, but want to put it on the table before I > forget about it. I'd appreciate a three months moratorium, disallowing > everyone to add new packages to the tree (despite new dependencies of > existing packages), so everyone is forced/asked to put his energy in existing > ebuilds, especially unmaintained ones. Sort of spring-cleaning, because parts > of the tree look like a dump. I agree that some cleaning is needed (and some of my packages are desperate for it!), but I'm totally opposed to this idea. I think the idea of shutting up shop for three months (presumably with a "closed for refurbishment" sign on the door) would let down our users who rely on us for regular package updates, and would be a massive PR disaster. Cleaning is something that has to happen all the time; it needs to be a natural and sustainable part of what we do every day. If you feel so strongly about this, why not setup a "cleaning crew" project that goes around doing exactly this? Best regards, Stu -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list