Michael Orlitzky <mjo <at> gentoo.org> writes:
> Personally I would prefer a bug, but the proxy-maintainers page says > that you should contact them directly. Either proxy-maint <at> gentoo.org > or on IRC in #gentoo-proxy-maint. OK, I'll drop them an email. > Here's the list I hacked together. Thanks:: snip There have been many posts, here is what I'm going to send the the proxy maintainers (not all from your filtered list) :: dansguardian, gspeakers and showconsole may all need to not only have a maintainer, but a fork is under consideration. I hope suse's showconsole is actually a "rebranded" version of netconsole, research needed on that one. I also found 'net-fs/tahoe-lafs' quite intriguing so I'm a wee bit uncertain as to why this one is not being pick up? I need to read up on it and test it a bit to learn more about tahoe-lafs. Best way forward? So for now I just copy the contents of /usr/portage/categroy/package into /usr/local/portage/category/package and include the relevant sources from /usr/portage/distfiles also under /usr/local/portage. Any other relevant file to grab up before hatchet time? Note:: I'm still working on my 'git_hub_kungfu' so I like to do old school work on sources and such. Please point me to a 'cook book' approach on gentoo-wiki-github instructions for the takeover of soon to be axed packages, if it exists; maybe as an appendix to the dev-manual so folks with insufficient current knowledge have a pathway forward? Thanks for all your advice Michael. If this process is made easy and documented, maybe others will show some interests in adopting a few packages, particularly from the maintainer-needed listings. James
