[Mageia-dev] Review Of Bugs

Mon Oct 31 22:09:42 CET 2011

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Maarten Vanraes at 31/10/11 20:55 did gyre and gimble:
+>> Op maandag 31 oktober 2011 21:34:04 schreef D.Morgan:
+>> [...]
+>>>> But seriously, if we can't maintain/fix something like chromium-browser,
+>>>> we should just drop it completely, maybe have a get-chromium package
+>>>> instead
+>>>
+>>> why ? i package it regularly and tvignaud too.
+>>> what about dropping all packages that have bugs ?  this is just stupid
+>>> and you should first ask ppl packaging it before giving such ideas
+>>
+>> ok, i get it, (allthough i did say "IF") I guess it's a misguided attempt of
+>> myself to get more maintainership...
+>
+> I think the attempts to get more official partnerships by Samuel and
+> yourself are very valuable, but by the same token, I think we need to
+> accept that having a single maintainer for some packages just doens't
+> make sense.
+>
+> For example things like initscripts, udev, systemd etc. should be
+> maintained by a "core" team, and IMO, not a single person (tho' if
+> someone steps up and is proven to be reliable then this is obviously not
+> a bad thing per-se!). I'm certainly happy to help out here.
+>
+> This is a bit OT for this thread tho'... :)
+
+i completly agree on your point.
+