On 03/27/2011 02:47 AM, 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
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<?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.
Why does anyone need to *add* a package that is maintainer-needed? This
is one of the problems of the gentoo-x86 tree - too many
maintainer-needed packages. It is a bad thing for our users because when
they submit bugs and/or fixes, they go [generally] unnoticed for ages.
Also, as you may know, the treecleaner team is constantly "fighting"
with removing m-n packages.
The tree has 679 m-n packages.
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners/maintainer-needed.xml
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.
That is abit extreme for me (read: I don't have motivation to fight the
flames), but I wouldn't complain if someone else did it to be honest.
-Jeremy
