On Thursday, July 07, 2016 06:37:09 AM Duncan wrote:
> J. Roeleveld posted on Wed, 06 Jul 2016 20:22:57 +0200 as excerpted:
> > On Thursday, June 30, 2016 10:30:07 PM Aaron Bauman wrote:
> >> # Aaron Bauman <b...@gentoo.org> (30 Jun 2016)
> >> # Unpatched security vulnerability per bug #509920.
> >> # Removal in 30 days www-apps/egroupware
> > 
> > Why is this bug being used to treeclean egroupware?
> > 
> > Why is bug  461212 not being used to actually resolve the issue?
> > If I would actually be confident that it would actually be used, I would
> > have no issue on trying to get my latest ebuild ( version 14.3.20160525
> > ) converted to the latest standards.
> 
> According to equery meta, egroupware has no individual developer
> maintainer and no proxied maintainer, only the webapps project as
> maintainer.  And apparently there, nobody has been specifically
> interested in egroupware, so it has fallen thru the cracks to some
> degree, tho newer versions /may/ be in the webapps-experimental overlay.

I tried contacting the web-apps project directly, but never received a reply.

> Here's the webapps project wiki page:
> 
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Webapps
> 
> That has this to say when discussing the overlay, quote:
> 
....
> 
> The overlay can be found here:
> https://cgit.gentoo.org/proj/webapps-experimental.git/

Last commit in 2011.

> Warning
> Please remember that the applications available through the overlay might
> compromise the security of your server!
> 
> The overlay is an ideal playground for new developers wishing to join our
> team. Once we see that you are capable of writing ebuilds of reasonable
> quality, we can provide you with commit rights to the overlay.
> 
> End quote.
> 
> 
> So it's possible newer versions are in the overlay, and they simply
> decided it was too much of a load to keep a version in the tree as well.
> 
> If there /aren't/ newer versions in the overlay, presumably it's because
> nobody that has access has been interested in maintaining it in the
> overlay either.
> 
> Either way, given your obvious interest, I'd suggest contacting them
> about overlay commit rights, and/or volunteering to be the proxied
> maintainer for this particular package.

Is there a way of finding out who are actually in the web-app project and which 
of them would be able and willing to work with me on this and other web 
applications that I actively use?

>From the lack of response to the email and lack of updates on the overlay, the 
project seems dead to me.

--
Joost


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