[gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

[Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org>]

Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> "Caleb Tennis" <caleb@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>> If anyone has any examples of where they really are being held back
>>> and where they really have given the arch teams plenty of time to do
>>> something, I'd like to see them... Somehow I doubt it happens very
>>> often, if at all.
>> Why?  You aren't the person I or anyone else has to make a case to.
>> In fact, I never would have mailed the list about this to prevent
>> this very type of potentially-out-of-control discussion from
>> occurring, except that the e-mail from Mike said that discussion
>> topics needed to be sent to the list.
> 
> Ah, so you'd like the Council to jump to some arbitrary decision,
> rather than hearing specific examples and evidence from all involved?
> 
> How will providing specific examples of how people are being held up
> not be beneficial to the decision-making process?

First you have to acknowledge that old perpetually open bugs and old 
unmaintained ebuilds are a maintenance burden.  There seems to be a 
consensus among maintainers that they are, but when given the examples 
of xfce and media-* you responded that those are not a priority for the 
archs in question.  Well, that's nice, but they are for the maintainers 
of those herds and that's what we're talking about.  We're not actively 
looking for ways to dump more work on the arch teams, but we're also 
tired of having more work dumped on us.  We're looking for a solution 
that has both sides happy here, but that won't happen if you don't admit 
there's a problem.


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