Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Moving unmaintained packages to Sunrise

2010-06-19 Thread Thomas Sachau
Am 13.06.2010 22:36, schrieb Duncan: > Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto posted on Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:26:26 + as > excerpted: > >> there was a proposal to create a sunset overlay, like the java team used >> and now kde uses as well. The purpose of this overlay would be to keep >> the packages that a

[gentoo-dev] Re: Moving unmaintained packages to Sunrise

2010-06-13 Thread Duncan
Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto posted on Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:26:26 + as excerpted: > there was a proposal to create a sunset overlay, like the java team used > and now kde uses as well. The purpose of this overlay would be to keep > the packages that are removed from the tree because they have no

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Moving unmaintained packages to Sunrise

2010-06-13 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 6/13/10 6:35 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > But who's talking here about moving abandoned ebuilds just to keep > them? I'd wanted just to make it simpler to switch the 'maintainership' > from Gentoo devs to Sunrise users, when the second are ready to > maintain the ebuild well. Can you suggest a spe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Moving unmaintained packages to Sunrise

2010-06-13 Thread Markos Chandras
We ( as treecleaners ) can't move the packages to sunrise. If there are users out there who want to maintain them either move the ebuilds on sunrise themselves or proxy maintain them. On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:07:12 +0300 > Markos Chandras wro

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Moving unmaintained packages to Sunrise

2010-06-13 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:07:12 +0300 Markos Chandras wrote: > If you start moving maintainer-needed package on Sunrise then Sunrise > will end up as a garbage collector overlay having many many ebuilds > that nobody will actually maintain. If you care about > maintainer-needed package then step up

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Moving unmaintained packages to Sunrise

2010-06-13 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 13/06/2010 14:07, Markos Chandras a écrit : > If you start moving maintainer-needed package on Sunrise then Sunrise > will end up as a garbage collector overlay having many many ebuilds that > nobody will actually maintain. If you care about maintainer-needed > package then step up and proxy mai

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Moving unmaintained packages to Sunrise

2010-06-13 Thread Markos Chandras
If you start moving maintainer-needed package on Sunrise then Sunrise will end up as a garbage collector overlay having many many ebuilds that nobody will actually maintain. If you care about maintainer-needed package then step up and proxy maintain it. The delay ( which is not that big if you coop

[gentoo-dev] Re: Moving unmaintained packages to Sunrise

2010-06-13 Thread Duncan
Michał Górny posted on Sun, 13 Jun 2010 10:41:43 +0200 as excerpted: > Wouldn't it be better to officially support moving unmaintained packages > directly into Sunrise? ++ I've thought something like that was needed for awhile, tho I'm not sure it fits the sunrise theme too well. But if not th