On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò <flamee...@flameeyes.eu> wrote: > I'm not saying that we should remove a package because it has one > trivial bug not fixed in three months. But when upstream is dead, and > nobody in Gentoo is caring for it, has half a dozen open bug (trivial or > not), unsolved or unsolvable for over an year... punt the crap from the > tree and reduce the overload.
Open trivial bugs don't create any overload, except for those who go looking at them and worrying about them at night. As long as it builds on 80%+ of systems and has no serious issues (security in particular) there is no reason to remove a package. Yes, quality issues might cause it to have issues on 80% of systems in the future, and when that happens prune it. I have no idea how many open bugs Gentoo has. The reason for this is that I search for bugs that I care about, and the only thing that has to worry about the rest is the database server. If we had a trillion open bugs I'd start worrying about that more, though simply closing them wouldn't help in that case. Remove things when they cause problems, not before. Rich
