On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 01:17:46PM +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Jeremy Olexa <darks...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On 03/26/2011 12:52 AM, Mike Frysinger (vapier) wrote: > > > >> Index: metadata.xml > >> =================================================================== > >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > >> <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd";> > >> <pkgmetadata> > >> <herd>no-herd</herd> > >> <maintainer> > >> <email>maintainer-nee...@gentoo.org</email> > >> </maintainer> > >> </pkgmetadata> > > > > Can this practice of adding m-n packages to gentoo-x86 be stopped? If you > > add it, take responsibility for it, please. If you don't want to take > > responsibility for it, at least find a team that is willing to look after > > it. > > > > If you prohibit people from doing that, they'll just commit it > normally, and then remove themselves a week later. > > I propose that we should be more aggressive about package.masking (for > removal) all maintainer-needed packages from the tree by doing that > one month after they become maintainer-needed. If someone doesn't > volunteer to take care of it, it probably wasn't important anyway. > > -- > ~Nirbheek Chauhan > > Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team > Uhm no. The fact that nobody takes care of it doesn't necessarily mean that the package is broken and that it should be removed
Regards, -- Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
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