On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Anthony Towns wrote: > It takes, what, twenty minutes to upload a package with the Maintainer: > field changed? A few hours every couple of months are enough to keep > it fairly adequately maintained. If the packages aren't worth that much > time from anyone, they're not worth keeping. Hmm, you do not honestly want to tell me that "Maintaining" is equal to uploading a package with correctly set maintainer field. It is caring about bugs, updates etc. I just fixed most of the zope-* packages and it would be easy enough to set the maintainer field to my email address. But I do not have the time to *care* about the packages.
> It uses up disk space on auric and the mirrors, You do not really want me to say that these some packages will eat relevant disk space on auric and mirrors. > it clutters the BTS, I just subscribed the packages I mentioned in ppt so I also just get a notice and would *try* to care about bugs - but this is no *maintainance* in my eyes. > it makes the WNPP harder to manage, it makes update_excuses harder > to follow... This is a valid argument in my opinion - but no reason to remove completely. > Also, "the knowledge how to package them bug free" is rarely > particularly valuable. For beginners those packages are valuable. I tried to put in all my knowledge about packaging Zope-Products into these packages, introduced debconf (which all packages should do). I would be very upset if a new maintainer started from scratch with one of those packages without debconf. Kind regards Andreas. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]