[Mageia-dev] taking care of some packages not maintained in Mandriva

Thu Jan 13 20:34:23 CET 2011

On 13 January 2011 21:07, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+> 'Twas brillig, and philippe makowski at 13/01/11 18:07 did gyre and gimble:
+>> Hello,
+>>
+>> looking at http://maint.mandriva.com/listpkgs.php?owner=1
+>> I saw  duplicity and python-reportlab
+>> since I don't see them yet on the svn, I'm ok too taking care of them
+>>
+>> I will certainly also add rubygems-fb for http://rubygems.org/gems/fb
+>>
+>> no objection ?
+>
+>
+> I think it should be first come, first served for "no maintainer" pkgs.
+> If a "better" maintainer steps up in the future and everyone agrees,
+> then maintainership can be ceded later.
+>
+> Col
+>
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+>
+> Colin Guthrie
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+>
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+>
+>
+>
+
+Yeah. Right now everyone importing a package just goes after whatever
+BuildRequires it needs, maitainership, as Colin said, can be sorted
+out later.
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+