martin-kokos wrote: > ------- Original Message ------- > On Tuesday, September 12th, 2023 at 3:36 PM, Eddie Chapman > <ed...@ehuk.net> wrote: > >> Sam James wrote: >> >>> "Eddie Chapman" ed...@ehuk.net writes: >>> >>>>>> So what's the situation with the current Gentoo maintainers? >>>>>> Have >>>>>> they disappeared? I often see on here packages being offered up >>>>>> for grabs. Why hasn't there been a call to give others the >>>>>> opportunity to volunteer as maintainers rather than going >>>>>> straight to last riting the package? Or >>>>>> has that happened and I've missed it, in which case I apologise. >>>>> >>>>> There was a year ago or so and nothing really came out of it. But >>>>> see above wrt 'tags'. >>>> >>>> A year is a long time, there might well now be people willing to >>>> take over maintaining it that were not willing to 1 year ago, if >>>> that is what is required. >>> >>> They have a month to step up anyway, although that will involve >>> upstream activity too. >> >> I see there was already a change in the tree yesterday that assumes >> sys-fs/eudev is going (commit d46677fd864b30315423c8364ca44db2de98e2a1, >> sys-fs/mdadm/mdadm-4.2-r2, amd64 stable keyworded). Has this actually >> been decided behind the scenes already? This starts to smell a little >> ugly unless I've completely misunderstood something. I hope I'm wrong. >> >> One thing I don't understand: the Gentoo project page for eudev lists 4 >> members including the lead, and FWICT they are mostly still active in >> other areas of Gentoo (recent commits to the tree in other packages). >> The >> project lead is also an original author of eudev. I find it hard to >> believe that all 4 of these people have completely lost interest in >> eudev in Gentoo. Have any of these 4 maintainers publicly said >> (anywhere) that >> they are not interested in being maintainers anymore (which is fine if >> that is the case)? We're not talking here about a lone maintainer of >> some peripheral package that's disappeared leaving an orphaned package. >> >> I'm an outsider to Gentoo development (just a heavy user for over a >> decade both personally and professionally) so I might have missed >> something. I just find it puzzling. > > I don't understand why there is need to go off of *hints and clues* > whether its active development or whether the project maintainers want to > maintain it or not. The project lead has explained the original reason for > eudev being part of base and why that reason has passed. Issue decided 2 > years ago. > > https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2021-08-24-eudev-retirement.htm > l > > If there were maintainers to suport it for 2 extra years, that's very > nice of them. Speculating, without them, after their decision to > last-rite and asking to support eudev indefinitely, without giving any > insightful reason as to why, seems ... not a great way to motivate > someone to do something extra for me. > > Martin >
Thank you Martin and Sam for pointing out to me the news item above from 2 years ago, which for some reason I missed originally, so I wasn't aware this is how the people listed as current maintainers felt. This seems like a crucial piece of information that was sadly omitted from the original last rite message. Maybe there is a lesson here somewhere about communication and last riting of core system packages.
