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By shipping it we implicitly promised +</I>><i> to maintain it. Of course with that kind of logic we would never drop any +</I>><i> package, but I just wanted to point out that dropping a package is not that an +</I>><i> easy solution : when dropping something, there should be a note somewhere (in +</I>><i> the errata?), there should be a warning before upgrade (ideally "the following +</I>><i> packages found on your system are no longer supported in Mageia 2 and will not +</I>><i> get security updates. Do you want to continue?"). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I'm not volunteering to maintain it, so I won't strongly oppose dropping it, +</I>><i> but if possible I'd like we actively looked for a maintainer first rather and +</I>><i> drop it only as a last solution. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Best regards +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Samuel Verschelde +</I>><i> +</I>Well, i've put this up multiple times before, the rebrand and the missing +security updates, now that nothing has happened, i've at least worked +on a solution for Mageia 1. But we should try to keep it sustainable +in the long term. + +So please not make that "we should look for a maintainer" as then IMHO +nothing will happen by itself, but just propose to feed it to Cerberus. + +Wasn't the goal some time ago to have no packages maintained by infamous +nobody? Now we have packages, which are not really maintained. This is +quite a step back. + +Also please consider that nobody was interested about discussing a proposal +for a policy about unresponsive maintainers, which is a really similar topic, IMHO. +Quite sad overall, if you ask me, and much room for improvements. + +So if noone volunteers and ensures to keep it updated for stable distros, +i'm gonna drop it from cauldron next week, before it's too late. + + +PS: IMHO, we didn't promise to people "we will maintain this collection of +software eternally" this is just not realistic and not possible, but we promised +stable packages of a good quality. Neither is fulfilled in this case. +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="013556.html">[Mageia-dev] [RFC] How to proceed with seamonkey/iceape for security updates and freeze push +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="013714.html">[Mageia-dev] [RFC] How to proceed with seamonkey/iceape for security updates and freeze push +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#13570">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#13570">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#13570">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#13570">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |