Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC Maintainer-Wanted Bugs/Cleaning]

2006-06-04 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 29 May 2006 20:13, Jakub Moc wrote: > Otherwise, some review used to be done, but there's been a negative > opinion about closing bugs w/ sucky broken ebuilds as WONTFIX/CANTFIX > expressed by some of the devs probably because neither of those resolutions are generally correct sucky bro

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC Maintainer-Wanted Bugs/Cleaning]

2006-05-30 Thread Grant Goodyear
Mark Loeser wrote: > Basically, it would be something that allowed you to "browse" the current > tree of submitted ebuilds. This way users that submit something can > categorize it for devs to easily look for ebuilds they may be interested > in, and we can make it so we could easily grab the ebuild

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC Maintainer-Wanted Bugs/Cleaning]

2006-05-30 Thread Jakub Moc
Robin H. Johnson wrote: > Could we establish policies for closing them or leaving them to sit > open? > > - Upstream dead, previously submitted URLs no longer functional (yes, > there are actually some like this!). > - No ebuild included. > - Upstream says obsolete in favour of another package.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC Maintainer-Wanted Bugs/Cleaning]

2006-05-30 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 07:30:25PM -0400, Alec Warner wrote: > So we created this awesome alias to put ebuilds that need a maintainer. > Good idea at the time, decent idea still. The problem? We have nearly > 2000 open bugs assigned to maintainer-wanted[1]. I would like to > discuss policy on t

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC Maintainer-Wanted Bugs/Cleaning]

2006-05-30 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On 30/05/06, Mark Loeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Basically, it would be something that allowed you to "browse" the current tree of submitted ebuilds. This way users that submit something can categorize it for devs to easily look for ebuilds they may be interested in, and we can make it so we c

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC Maintainer-Wanted Bugs/Cleaning]

2006-05-29 Thread Jakub Moc
Mark Loeser wrote: > Yea, the current situation has quickly turned into a mess. I definately > think that QA should definately be watching > maintainer-wanted/maintainer-needed and helping clean up new ebuilds, or > removing old unmaintained packages that no one cares about anymore. A bugzilla f

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC Maintainer-Wanted Bugs/Cleaning]

2006-05-29 Thread Mark Loeser
Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > So we created this awesome alias to put ebuilds that need a maintainer. > Good idea at the time, decent idea still. The problem? We have nearly > 2000 open bugs assigned to maintainer-wanted[1]. I would like to > discuss policy on these. Do we keep them,

[gentoo-dev] [RFC Maintainer-Wanted Bugs/Cleaning]

2006-05-29 Thread Alec Warner
So we created this awesome alias to put ebuilds that need a maintainer. Good idea at the time, decent idea still. The problem? We have nearly 2000 open bugs assigned to maintainer-wanted[1]. I would like to discuss policy on these. Do we keep them, do we get a group of people to slowly review