On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 19:29:23 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > 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'm in the commonbox herd for fluxbox. Given the number of other widely used, widely cared about packages I also maintain, I'm not inclined to waste time on various silly bb* tools which could better be spent upon things that make a difference. | 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. Wrong again. | > 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. 1. List your name in the metadata.xml file 2. Optional, but strongly encouraged: add yourself to the commonbox email alias and herds.xml section Not exactly difficult for existing developers to do... For people who aren't developers, there's an additional first step of "Become a developer", which is explained fully elsewhere. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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