On 5 March 2013 03:41, Jeroen Roovers <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 19:35:24 +0000 > Markos Chandras <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A number of packages in the tree are maintained by a Gentoo developer >> and a user. As a result of which, we are unable to monitor these >> packages in bugzilla. This is useful in case one of the maintainers >> goes MIA so we can find an alternative maintainer for them. So I am >> kindly asking you to add the proxy-maintainers herd as a backup herd >> for the packages that you proxy-maintain. I will go ahead and do it >> myself in two weeks if you don't want to bother fixing your metadata. >> If you want your packages to be excluded please let me know. This is >> mainly for tracking purposes and we don't intend to take over the >> maintainership of your packages (unless you want us to). > > Excellent idea. But how will proxy-maint@ devs know not to "take over"? > > > jer >
If there is at least one Gentoo developer in metadata.xml we assume the package is properly maintained by him so we never touch it. -- Regards, Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang
