On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 10:14 AM, James Cloos <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> "AW" == Alec Warner <[email protected]> writes: > > AW> If folks do not want to maintain it anymore, then it will be removed. > > That is about as harmful an attitude as possible. > > If you don't personally care about a package just leave it alone!
The point of treecleaners is to clean stuff that is broken. They shouldn't be removing packages that do not work. That being said, if it doesn't work and no one is willing to maintain it, it doesn't belong in the tree. > > And if you want more maintainers, then drop the schoolkid nonsense to > join the club. If this is some opaque comment about how it should easier to contribute to Gentoo (including being a proxy maintainer) then I couldn't agree more. That being said after looking at what it takes to become a debian developer or ubuntu developer...I don't think our process is any more onerous than those. > > -JimC > -- > James Cloos <[email protected]> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6 >
