-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 02/02/2012 10:56 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Dear all, > > there have been a number of packages masked lately due to lack of > maintainer. However, their metadata.xml does not list > maintainer-needed@g.o which I think should be the first step in > searching for a new maintainer. (The last being mask and > treecleaning.) > > The problem with this is that it keeps them off the radar[1] and > also formally prevents them from getting treatment from > proxy-maintainers or sunrise projects. > > Is there anything that speaks against making metadata.xml tell the > truth? At least the following packages are affected: [...] > > > Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn > > [1] > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners/maintainer-needed.xml > > Last rites in gentoo-dev-announce and gentoo-dev are better to draw attention. Users who happen to have these packages installed, they will see the message when they run emerge -uDN world and they will hopefully step up and take over the package. Those you don't have it installed will probably don't care so keeping it off the radar is acceptable for them.
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