On Sun, 2013-02-03 at 06:07 +0100, Vaeth wrote: > So this 30 day delay will enable these people to get involved, > especially for all the packages which were removed in the last years? > Now it is apparent that an archive for dropped packages (in the > form of keeping masked packages or some other form) is not needed: > I want to join your club with the time machine!
If you want an automatic archive for dropped packages, MAKE ONE! Get a domain name, rent a VPS with lots of disc space, subscribe a mail account to gentoo-dev, write a small script that parses last-rites announcements and automatically archives the affected ebuilds and their sources. You have to realize that there are only three ways to get something done in the non-commercial open-source space: 1. convince someone else that it's fun; 2. convince someone else that it's important; or 3. do it yourself. We the Gentoo developers strongly believe that this project is not fun and not important. So if want dropped packages to be automatically archived, I suggest that you volunteer for the job of automatically archiving them. -Alexandre.
