On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Jeremy Olexa <darks...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 03/27/2011 02:47 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: >> 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.
I'm just pointing out that if you prohibit that by policy, this is what people will do. The real problem is that maintainer-needed packages are allowed to remain in the tree *indefinitely*. >> 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. > Just start removing old[1] maintainer-needed packages. If people complain, tell them to start maintaining it. If they continue to complain, ignore them. As tree-cleaner, you have the power to do this and not take bullshit from people about it. 1. Set old as one month, with a 2 month package.mask duration before it's removed. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team
