On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:32:32 +0200 Carsten Lohrke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Monday 12 September 2005 19:03, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > The easiest way to improve those ebuilds' chances | > of getting into the tree is by getting them up to a good enough | > standard that whoever picks them up is very unlikely to have to do | > major extra work on them. | | To have even more unmaintained packages in the tree. The tree it is | that needs QA. If "maintainer-wanted" bugs stay open forever - who | cares.
The people who work with maintainer-wanted care. | > It was discussed on this list. | | Thanks for the pointer. :p So from the user point of view it's better | to file a request without attaching an ebuild, because it wouldn't | directly resolved WONTFIX?! (Before you answer that: From the user | point of view, not your's.) I mean I'm often giving a pointer on an | formal issue or a very wrong attempt, but being that strict is not | neecessary, discouraging and probably some even take the chance to | molest about Gentoo, imho. Not really. It's pretty likely that anyone who looks seriously at maintainer-wanted will include "and KEYWORDS includes EBUILD" in their search. They'll probably include "and KEYWORDS includes REVIEWED" too... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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