[arch-dev-public] Archlinux [current] status

[Roman Kyrylych]

2007/5/9, Jason Chu <jason at archlinux.org>:
> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 04:54:43PM +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 9. Mai 2007 schrieb Jason Chu:
> > > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:30:59PM +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
> > > > It's time to cleanup [current].
> > > > Orphan all packages of Judd, Dorphell, Aurelien, Gregor
> > > > 1 week of time to grab what packages you wanna have.
> > > > Keep in mind it's your job then to test and ensure that the package
> > > > works! Please one of the enablers do this, or give me the permission to
> > > > orphan them.

> > >
> > > Is it possible to have a step before this one that's not as disruptive?
> > > This will create a lot of orphans very quickly.

> > Well that way you see quickly who wants to  take packages and which ones need
> > maintainers, im sick of browsing judds and dorphells dashboard to find the
> > flagged ones, there are also some that are not outdated at all.

> I was just thinking there might be a few packages that each of the
> developers (mostly Judd) wants to hang on to.  If you orphan all of them,
> then they'll have to snatch them back up again.

Is this really a problem?
By that time much things should change.
We're (supposed to be) moving to shared maintainership and package
divisions anyway.

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)