On Saturday, August 30, 2014 04:51:35 PM Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2014-08-30, o godz. 14:35:20 > > "J. Roeleveld" <jo...@antarean.org> napisał(a): > > On Saturday, August 30, 2014 01:46:20 PM Michał Górny wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Right now, we have 1262 packages assigned to maintainer-needed@. Only > > > a few of them have a large number of bugs, many have just version bump > > > requests. 953 packages have no bug open. > > > > > > Please consider adopting some of the packages, or at least fixing some > > > of the relevant bugs. For package - bug count list, take a look at [1]. > > > Please note that this list is not autogenerated, so it will soon be > > > outdated, I hope :). > > > > > > We should also consider removing some of the packages listed there. > > > > > > [1]:http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/maintainer-needed.txt > > > > I'm not a developer, which means I can't actively pick up any packages. If > > helpful, I would be willing to go through older open bugs and see if there > > is anything I can pick up. > > > > For net-im/skype, I did check a few things last week as I had issues > > connecting: > > bugs: 461668, 462504, 440512, 467252, 493068, 512576 are for version <4.3 > > which can no longer connect (Versions are being blocked by Skype upstream) > > I think these can be closed. > > Is it fine to remove all versions <4.3 from the tree then?
Should be as they will never work. I got an email from Skype about it which I can forward, but it's in Dutch. (Couldn't quickly find a version in English) > By the way, you can proxy-maintain some of those packages if you like. > See [1]. > > [1]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers I'll have a look which of the "maintainer-needed" packages I use and know sufficiently to assist with. -- Joost
