Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Restricted version of gentoo-dev mailing list
Hi all, On 2017-05-23 21:08, William Hubbs wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 09:31:18PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > Hi, everyone. > > > > I'd like to request Infra to establish a new mailing list that would > > fill in the gap between our public mailing lists and the gentoo-core > > mailing list. > > > > Name: gentoo-dev-internal > > > > Topic: technical discussions between active Gentoo contributors > > That's what gentoo-dev is now. > > I'll be honest. I'm really way too tired right now to write a long > argument, but do we really think that basically moving everyone to > another mailing list will solve these kinds of issues? > > I think this is just shuffling people around and will lead to the same > thing happening on the new list over time. > > William I too was left wondering, what would be the role of the gentoo-dev after the proposed change. If it is agreed that gentoo-dev has become unusable for development work and the discussion is moved elsewhere, what would be the intended purpose of the current list? -- Tuomo Hartikainen
Re: [gentoo-dev] masking and removing *coin packages
On 2016-07-08 08:10, james wrote: > On 07/08/2016 05:17 AM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Jul 2016 20:30:36 -0400 Anthony G. Basile wrote: > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> I emailed the list some time ago about giving away a bunch of bitcoin > >> forks to see if anyone was interested in taking them. I didn't get any > >> feedback so as of tomorrow I'll be masking the following for removal in > >> 30 days. > > > > Any reason for mask and removal? Are these packages broken? > > Just drop them to maintainer-needed. > > > > Best regards, > > Andrew Savchenko > > > > Perhaps we should start posting these orphaned-package announcements to > gentoo-user, so folks interested in learning about ebuilds can ponder > proxy-maintenance of a few packages as an opportunity? > > > Surely there is a wider audience that will see some packages they like > are going away because there are not enough maintainers, and thus > respond by 'stepping up' to maintain a few packages? I would think those who are interested in (and capable of) maintaining packages would already be subscribed to gentoo-dev. -- Tuomo Hartikainen
Re: [gentoo-dev] please remove me off your mailing list
On 2016-05-24 09:37, Kent Fredric wrote: > On 24 May 2016 at 09:22, Kristian Fiskerstrand <k...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > give a man a fish and he has food for a day, teach a man to fish and he > > has food for a lifetime > > > But if you feed a man while you teach him, he's better equipped to learn. :p > > Hence, the suggestion includes both. > > - Solve the immediate issue. > - Include information to solving the issue in future. And he would probably still mail the whole list the next time, because it is easier for him than refering to the instructions he got last time. -- Tuomo Hartikainen
