Markus Nigbur wrote: >Hi gang, > >I just (again) noticed I'm currently the only active developer of the >desktop-misc herd, which is going to change as soon as the recruitment >process is reopened again. >About 80% of all bugs assigned to desktop-misc are new ebuild >submissions for software which either falls into no other graphical >application herds responsibility or applications that are not wanted by >the relevant herds. Which is just fine, I don't want to hear any whining >here, it's one of the purposes of the desktop-misc herd. > >Anyway, as I've already said I'm the _currently_ the only active herd >member and simply cannot take the responsibility of about 100 new >packages. >Therefor I suggest introducing a new keyword to bugzilla's resolution >list, called NEEDMAINTAINER. >With this new keyword everyone could compile a list of currently >unmaintained packages and just take the ones he likes. Additionally this >would be a great opportunity for non-developers for starting their >carrier within Gentoo. > >PS: If I'm repeating my self.. It's 4:30am and I'm awake for 68 hours, >so.. > >Regards, > Markus > > > I like this idea. I actually proposed a similar idea time ago in #-dev , but instead of doing it from bugzilla, to do it from the web site, (i like yours better) the main idea is to have a list of unmantained packages (no herd, no mantainer), so we can avoid surprises, and it'd be easier for users and for new developers aspirants to know what they can cooperate with.
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