Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFD] Adopt-a-package, proxy-maintenance, and other musings

2016-01-19 Thread Göktürk Yüksek
Duncan: > NP-Hardass posted on Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:44:49 -0500 as excerpted: > >> "adopt-a-package" type program. In functionality, this is no different >> than proxy-maintenance, however, this codifies it into an explicit >> policy whereby users are encouraged to step and take over a package. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFD] Adopt-a-package, proxy-maintenance, and other musings

2016-01-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 23:32:30 +0100 > Michał Górny wrote: >> The problem was, is and will be that packages are unmaintained. Not >> that stats show that they are many. > > No it's not. Gentoo is about the community, and it's important for t

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFD] Adopt-a-package, proxy-maintenance, and other musings

2016-01-19 Thread NP-Hardass
I'm not claiming that this is a new problem or that it will be orders of magnitude worse. Merely that it brings the issue back into the forefront and that we could benefit from official policies and (in some cases renewed) efforts to reduce their impact. An official policy/action is not likely t

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFD] Adopt-a-package, proxy-maintenance, and other musings

2016-01-19 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:44:49 -0500 NP-Hardass wrote: > With all of the unclaimed herds and unclaimed packages within them, I > started to wonder what will happen after the GLEP 67 transition > finally comes to fruition. This left me with some concerns and I was > wondering what the community thi

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFD] Adopt-a-package, proxy-maintenance, and other musings

2016-01-19 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 23:32:30 +0100 Michał Górny wrote: > The problem was, is and will be that packages are unmaintained. Not > that stats show that they are many. No it's not. Gentoo is about the community, and it's important for the community not to perceive that there is a problem. Being honest

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFD] Adopt-a-package, proxy-maintenance, and other musings

2016-01-19 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:44:49 -0500 NP-Hardass wrote: > With all of the unclaimed herds and unclaimed packages within them, I > started to wonder what will happen after the GLEP 67 transition > finally comes to fruition. This left me with some concerns and I was > wondering what the community thi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Herd likely up for grabs: net-fs

2016-01-19 Thread Matthew Thode
On 01/18/2016 12:03 AM, Joshua Kinard wrote: > On 01/17/2016 15:03, Michał Górny wrote: >> Hello, everyone. >> >> The current maintainer of net-fs herd so far hasn't replied to our >> queries. If we don't get any reply in a week, we will be disbanding it >> and looking for new maintainers for its p

Re: [gentoo-dev] Herd likely up for grabs: net-im

2016-01-19 Thread Hanno Böck
On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 19:19:31 + Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote: > Michał Górny writes: > > Packages currently in herd along with their other maintainers: > > [...] > > > > net-im/ejabberd : > > I have not much knowledge about erlang stuff, but I will take ejabberd > if noone else w

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFD] Adopt-a-package, proxy-maintenance, and other musings

2016-01-19 Thread Michael Jones
Hopefully some comments from a user / power-user are welcome on this topic. Just my two cents, is all. On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Alec Warner wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:44 PM, NP-Hardass wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> With all of the unclaime

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFD] Adopt-a-package, proxy-maintenance, and other musings

2016-01-19 Thread Alec Warner
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:44 PM, NP-Hardass wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > With all of the unclaimed herds and unclaimed packages within them, I > started to wonder what will happen after the GLEP 67 transition > finally comes to fruition. This left me with some c