From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E4011139694 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 18:54:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 31B58E0EDD; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 18:54:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F2369E0ECD for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 18:54:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.2.13] (85.253.91.80.cable.starman.ee [85.253.91.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: leio) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4279E34182B for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 18:53:59 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1500490435.32362.7.camel@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] The problem of defunct and undermanned projects in Gentoo From: Mart Raudsepp To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 21:53:55 +0300 In-Reply-To: References: <1500239562.11529.1.camel@gentoo.org> <20170719075622.293bff90@katipo2.lan> <20170719092317.7ba9beee@katipo2.lan> <6b7c14b1-1af6-4f10-a88b-4a02bd90705b@iee.org> <1500414026.1530.2.camel@gentoo.org> <98b8bfba-fc5b-0299-e8fc-ba69440e1943@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.22.6 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 3ac7dc99-c8c9-4063-8803-f9f9ef930cb0 X-Archives-Hash: d38f87bdabc1575882bdf1d95916c1b0 Ühel kenal päeval, K, 19.07.2017 kell 14:22, kirjutas Rich Freeman: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Ian Stakenvicius > wrote: > > > > OK, so here's the flipside of this.  I'm a member of a few projects > > because I help take care of just a couple of things or maybe even > > just > > a gentoo-carried patch.  Being a project member is necessary as I > > do > > want to have the commit rights on the project, but I'm -not- nor > > ever > > meant to be a general project member or overall maintainer or dev. > > > > You left out another use case - wanting to follow mail on the project > alias.  I could see cases where somebody isn't interest in a project > in general but works on something related and benefits from seeing > the > emails to the alias. e-mail alias members and project membership is already disconnect. So he did not leave out this use case. To monitor a mail alias, you don't need to be member of the project (but hopefully have an OK from the project to lurk like this).