[Mageia-dev] Review Of Bugs

[D.Morgan]

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.