On Saturday 20 December 2003 06:16, foser wrote: > What i do is just add myself as maintainer for now (packages can be > maintained without herd if needed) and try to find a suitable herd to Thanks for suggestion, but it doesn't cut it.
> take over in time. You can make a comment in the ChangeLog or metadata > itsself about the temporary maintainership (eg. see xscreensaver > metadata). Well, the thing is that I *do not want* to maintain these packages. Over these years (sounds funny when applied to Gentoo, doesn't it? :) . But it really was like two years for me already) I processed all kinds of packages semirandomly assigned to me. So now, with the push for organization, I would like to loose some of them :). Adding a temporary metadata does not work, because in reality it is not going to be temporary. In my experiense things tend to stick, even if there is a reasonably high traffic in them. With low maintaince packages their metadata are going to be like set in stone. Besides, on that "noherd" thing - I despise it. For one it is plain illegal. Plus, considering what I just mentioned about the temporareliness of metadata of such packages, it is likely to remain "noherd" for foreseable future. Therefore: > In my opinion it is most important to get full maintainer/herd coverage > of packages asap. Just adding whatever in order to get that damn metadata in is a bad thing IMO. We will need anoter major push down the road, but this time to get trough "noherd" packages (I hope this is the only kind of junk we collect in metadata atm). Why don't we do it all in one go instead? So, the only change I can envision doing is, instead of "unofficially" taking care of these packages as time allows, to outright drop them and throw the related bugs back to bug-wranglers. George -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
