Mark Loeser posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:11:28 -0400:
>> > * QA will take an active role in cleaning up unmaintained and broken >> > packages from the tree. It is also encouraged of members of the QA >> > team to assist in mentoring new developers that wish to take over >> > unmaintained packages/herds. >> >> i am not sure how to read this one, it could mean broken packages that >> are unmaintained, but how it is written it could also mean unmaintained >> || broken, not only unmaintained && broken, i really wish you would at >> least consider not killing off unmaintained and not broken packages, >> and word it in some way that this comes out clear in that paragraph > > It is written exactly how I meant for it to be interpretted. We will be > removing things that are unmaintained *and* broken. I'm sure the > security team will agree that this is a problem that currently plagues > them as well, and I think we can help them out by doing what we can in > this regard. What about "... cleaning up and removing from the tree unmaintained packages as they are found to be broken."? If I'm not mistaken, that makes the meaning crystal clear. (Maybe "cleaning up /or/ removing"?) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- [email protected] mailing list
