On 2010-12-12, at 3:19 PM, Markos Chandras <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 09:20:51PM +0100, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: >> A few months ago I spent some time bringing dev-libs/boost up to date >> because it was blocking some Python issues. Sebastian Luther helped me >> out (I more or less proxied from his overlay [2]). However, since I >> have no intrinsic interest in Boost, I have found it hard to find time >> to keep maintaining it (particularly since it's a pretty large >> package, and far from my area of expertise). Sebastian also seems >> slightly less available, though that might be due in part to my lack >> of interest. In any case, I'm going to remove myself from the >> maintainer-list. dev-zero is still in there, but AFAICT he hasn't >> spent any time on it over the past six months or so. If anybody else >> would like to pick it up (there are a lot of enthousiastic users in >> bugzilla [1]), that would be swell! >> >> Cheers, >> >> Dirkjan >> >> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320039 >> [2] https://github.com/few/few-s-gentoo-overlay >> > > Hi Dirkjan, > > Few of my packages depend on boost therefore I don't want to see this > package rotten on the tree. However, I do not have the hardware to > perform any kind of build testing to this package because it requires a > significant amount of resources during compilation phase. I will add > myself on metadata.xml but I will try to find a couple of users to help > me maintain it and become proxy maintainer for them. I use boost frequently and have a machine that can compile it quickly. Let me know if you want help. Boost is an important package to me. I will have free time after the 21st. (exams) > > Thanks for letting us know > > Regards, > -- > Markos Chandras (hwoarang) > Gentoo Linux Developer > Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org > Key ID: 441AC410 > Key FP: AAD0 8591 E3CD 445D 6411 3477 F7F7 1E8E 441A C410
