Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: mail-filter/milter-regex pull request #10004
On 11/08/2018 03:36 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote: > * Michael Orlitzky: > >> It's an open secret that packages maintained by >> category-n...@gentoo.org are in reality unmaintained; or are >> maintained by one guy (who may or may not be on the alias). > > As somebody who did not know that, and who was three weeks ago told to > contact the Net-Mail team, I find this more than a little annoying. My > time is just as valuable as everybody else's, after all. Why not flag > packages with "needs maintainer" if the listed team is basically a > mirage? Basically, because we don't know until one of us goes through the same process you just did. File a bug, no one responds. Ping the bug, no one responds. Try to highlight the alias on IRC, no one responds. Eventually announce I'M GOING TO COMMIT THIS, and no one responds. Then one day, announce I'M REPLACING YOU AS MAINTAINER, and no one responds. This can take a year. Some cleanup already took place when we switched from herds to projects, but there are still a lot of packages in limbo, is my impression. It was a bad idea to put down a vague email alias as maintainer in the first place; we're just paying for it now.
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: mail-filter/milter-regex pull request #10004
* Michael Orlitzky: > It's an open secret that packages maintained by > category-n...@gentoo.org are in reality unmaintained; or are > maintained by one guy (who may or may not be on the alias). As somebody who did not know that, and who was three weeks ago told to contact the Net-Mail team, I find this more than a little annoying. My time is just as valuable as everybody else's, after all. Why not flag packages with "needs maintainer" if the listed team is basically a mirage? When searching for Gentoo packages, I thought that if a team was listed as maintainers it was a sign that the package was well cared for, but from what I hear today that seems to be a misconception on my end. > Looking at the milter-regex history... you're the only person who > cares about it, so I think eventually the proxy maintainers should > just merge the PR barring any technical issues. Several developers stepped up today to help with this PR, for which I am grateful. Thanks to Lars Wendler, Michał Górny and Craig Andrews (in order of appearance) for picking up the ball. Milter-regex has now officially been passed into my and the Proxy Maintainer team's care and the pull request was merged. Standing on the outside looking in, I see a very busy P.M. team. Possibly too busy, as I mentioned before. Is this team bearing more load than others? Should responsibility be redistributed? I don't know the answers, but I can't avoid asking myself these questions. -Ralph
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: mail-filter/milter-regex pull request #10004
On 11/08/2018 09:44 AM, Ralph Seichter wrote: > Three weeks ago I sent the message shown below to the Gentoo Net-Mail > team. Since I did not receive a reply, I am now asking on this mailing > list: What can I do to have the pull request, which I opened six weeks > ago, taken care of? It's an open secret that packages maintained by category-n...@gentoo.org are in reality unmaintained; or are maintained by one guy (who may or may not be on the alias). Looking at the milter-regex history... you're the only person who cares about it, so I think eventually the proxy maintainers should just merge the PR barring any technical issues.
[gentoo-dev] Re: mail-filter/milter-regex pull request #10004
Three weeks ago I sent the message shown below to the Gentoo Net-Mail team. Since I did not receive a reply, I am now asking on this mailing list: What can I do to have the pull request, which I opened six weeks ago, taken care of? Thanks. To: net-m...@gentoo.org From: Ralph Seichter Subject: mail-filter/milter-regex pull request #10004 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 12:29:23 +0200 Hello Net-Mail team, in https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/e63b7e366f9061149ec9bd02847e7ec0 Virgil Dupras mentioned that I need to proactively pass pull request https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/10004 along. I'm not certain how this is best done, since I am not allow to assign issues in GitHub, so I am sending you this email. The PR has been reviewed and I made the one (very minor) requested change 19 days ago. I'd appreciate you taking over processing this PR from here. -Ralph P.S.: Please let me know if there is a better way to pass PRs to Gentoo developer teams.
Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: app-benchmarks/wrk, app-misc/gourmet, dev-python/elib-intl, games-misc/doge, net-misc/{httpie,proxytunnel}, sys-block/rts*
On 08.11.2018 07:15, Michał Górny wrote: Hello, The following packages are up for grabs after package reassignment of inactive developers: I'll take net-misc/proxytunnel Thanks, ~Craig signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: app-benchmarks/wrk, app-misc/gourmet, dev-python/elib-intl, games-misc/doge, net-misc/{httpie,proxytunnel}, sys-block/rts*
* Michał Górny: > The following packages are up for grabs after package reassignment > of inactive developers I'm willing to take care of "net-misc/httpie". -Ralph signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: app-benchmarks/wrk, app-misc/gourmet, dev-python/elib-intl, games-misc/doge, net-misc/{httpie,proxytunnel}, sys-block/rts*
Hello, The following packages are up for grabs after package reassignment of inactive developers: app-benchmarks/wrk app-misc/gourmet dev-python/elib-intl games-misc/doge net-misc/httpie net-misc/proxytunnel sys-block/rts5229 sys-block/rts_pstor -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
