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

[Ahmad Samir]

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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Yeah. Right now everyone importing a package just goes after whatever
BuildRequires it needs, maitainership, as Colin said, can be sorted
out later.

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Ahmad Samir