On 2016-07-08 08:10, james wrote: > On 07/08/2016 05:17 AM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Jul 2016 20:30:36 -0400 Anthony G. Basile wrote: > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> I emailed the list some time ago about giving away a bunch of bitcoin > >> forks to see if anyone was interested in taking them. I didn't get any > >> feedback so as of tomorrow I'll be masking the following for removal in > >> 30 days. > > > > Any reason for mask and removal? Are these packages broken? > > Just drop them to maintainer-needed. > > > > Best regards, > > Andrew Savchenko > > > > Perhaps we should start posting these orphaned-package announcements to > gentoo-user, so folks interested in learning about ebuilds can ponder > proxy-maintenance of a few packages as an opportunity? > > > Surely there is a wider audience that will see some packages they like > are going away because there are not enough maintainers, and thus > respond by 'stepping up' to maintain a few packages?
I would think those who are interested in (and capable of) maintaining packages would already be subscribed to gentoo-dev. -- Tuomo Hartikainen
