050107 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > due to various developers leaving, switching herds and so on, > I'm supposedly maintainer for all these packages.
have some sympathy from me if you've had things dumped on your desk which you aren't interested in, but don't just put them all in the garbage. > the package won't get a version bump > unless someone takes over as maintainer. if you limit yourself to the packages i have noted as performing correctly -- again, they are blackbox bbconf/keys/pager/run commonbox-utils -- , you should be able to maintain those Blackbox items with little effort. of course, as a volunteer you are perfectly free to say "Don't want to!", but that doesn't really help the more general Gentoo effort, does it ? > I get an email every time someone reports a problem > with one of these packages, and then several other whiny emails from users > when their bug sits there ignored because no-one's maintaining > the packages in question users should be more polite & more sensible. again, if you look at what i've told you works, you will probably find those bugs don't apply to current versions. > When a package won't compile with gcc3, and it gets no bug reports, yes. i have gcc-3.3.4-r1 , which had no problem compiling the BB items i use. > This isn't the first time I've asked for additional people for commonbox. i was not aware of that. i am new to Blackbox & limit my remarks to the 6 packages i have installed. you are fully entitled to ask for help & i've offered, if need be. > Do you have someone who's prepared to recruit you? no, but if there are a lot of hoops to jump through, it's not surprising that people are not volunteering to help you. tell me what it involves & i'll tell you whether i can do it. anyway, the central pieces of Blackbox work as advertised, so just keep them around & you shouldn't have a lot of trouble. you will certainly get a hearty "Thankyou" from me ... (smile) -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- [email protected] mailing list
