We've had some discussion, my proposal was:
Add a marker such as unmaintained-since: ...
then remove after 6 month or so. Due to the since you know exactly
what to remove.
The hard thing is to define what it means to be maintained or
unmaintained.
Thus you could also introduce markers such as
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 03:46:20PM -0400, Shea Levy wrote:
Thoughts on the idea? Any idea for a name for the repo? Eelco, would you
be able to make the repo if you think this is a good approach?
Is a whole other repo really necessary? Why not just a branch of
nixpkgs?
Matthew
A branch suggests merging, but really there will be tons of merges
*into* to branch and only ever be cherry-picks *out of* the branch,
which IMO negates most of the benefits of having it be in the same repo.
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 10:17:45AM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote:
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at
On 5 April 2014 21:46, Shea Levy s...@shealevy.com wrote:
Hi all,
Currently we have quite a lot of unmaintained, broken, or work-in
progress components in nixpkgs. It would be great if we could get to the
point where everything in nixpkgs was expected to work and be
maintained, but part of
On 04/05/2014 10:25 PM, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
I propose nixnut :P
But that might not be clear to non-dutch-speaking users.
:-D I thought niksnut referred to nut as an extreme enthusiast (in
English).
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Hi all,
Currently we have quite a lot of unmaintained, broken, or work-in
progress components in nixpkgs. It would be great if we could get to the
point where everything in nixpkgs was expected to work and be
maintained, but part of that I think is having a place for this other
work that isn't
Shea Levy s...@shealevy.com writes:
Hi all,
Currently we have quite a lot of unmaintained, broken, or work-in
progress components in nixpkgs. It would be great if we could get to the
point where everything in nixpkgs was expected to work and be
maintained, but part of that I think is having
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 10:25:59PM +0200, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
Shea Levy s...@shealevy.com writes:
Hi all,
Currently we have quite a lot of unmaintained, broken, or work-in
progress components in nixpkgs. It would be great if we could get to the
point where everything in nixpkgs was
