Thanks, Alin. This was the type of constructive response I was hoping to provoke. Don't get me wrong - I like genlop, however software "final state" does not exist IMO, and bugfixing is hugely important with any software.
Also, by "dead upstream" I mean that the page does not even exist anymore, not just that there is no activity. On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 12:33 +0300, Alin Nastac wrote: > Michael Cummings wrote: > > >As the original handler of genlop (it was assigned to perl herd when it > >first was asked to be added, since its written in perl) I strongly vote > >against dropping the package (ok, I didn't even realize it had been > >switched over to the portage-tools group for maintenance, and as such > >that there were even bugs open against it). The funny thing about no > >more activity upstream is this: why would there be? Except for bug > >fixes, it does a simple job, and it does it damned well: it parses your > >emerge log and gives you just the output you want and need. Don't > >abandon a tool just because it has reached its final state ;) > > > > > > > Well, a homepage would be a nice thing to have. > I also think that is a very useful tool. If no one will step forward, I > will take its maintainership. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
