Re: [gentoo-project] The problem of defunct and undermanned projects in Gentoo

[Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> What do you think? Would you mind getting that amount of mail once?
> Any other ideas?

Sounds fine to me. I've thought about unilaterally dropping people
from project lists, but decided it wasn't worth the inevitable hassle.

I'm basically the only one maintaining X11 packages for about a year
now (team of six officially), with some version bump help from mrueg.
I think the situation with GNOME is similar, but their work is more
difficult which is why it usually takes six months to get a new GNOME
release into Gentoo.

We may be able to get some small gains by better communicating which
projects need help, but I suspect that every developer that joins an
additional undermanned project to help out will just leave some other
project a little more undermanned.

The frustrating thing in the X11 world is that I know a bunch of
upstream people that *use* Gentoo. None of them feel like they have
time or the interest to help maintain things -- but still ask me to do
things in Gentoo.