Hello, In may I requested network management package be added to portage, jffnms. It was entered into bugzilla (92501). Since then it has progressed to a masked package in portage.
I just (today) got email that is rather cryptic to me. Help understanding what going on is most appreciated: <snip> Clear-Text: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92501 Secure: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keywords|REQUEST |EBUILD <snip> OK If I were to guess at the meaning, it's now an ebuild not a request any more (even though the skeleton ebuild was created some weeks ago). What puzzles me is that poking around I find this page: http://bugs.gentoo.org/describekeywords.cgi Selecting The EBUILD row all the way to the right under the bugs column, the number 4338 is linked to this page: http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=EBUILD search for the keyword '92501' it looks as though they (gentoo denizens) are looking for a maintainer? 92501 enh P2 All [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW net-analyzer/jffnms-0.8.2 ebuild request" OK, if my limited cerebrial functions are correct, it's dead in the water until a 'maintainer' picks up the effort? Is there anything I can do (like be a poezrrr and try to maintain this package for the gentoo community?) There's lots of information with Bugzilla, but much of it's enlightenment does not seem intuitive to me, nor have a found a lucid document that turns bugzilla into a knowledge tool. (obviously my_bad juju) Any help or comments are appreciated. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
