Alessandro added dozens of packages removed from Gentoo in one commit and only haphazardly made them maintainer-needed in a later commit, with others being maintained by a variety of @gentoo.org maintainers (see below Repology links). I've no idea about the Git standards in GURU but this should have been done at a minimum with one commit per package while fixing maintainers in the same commit as adding the package. https://repology.org/maintainer/prometheanfire%40gentoo.org https://repology.org/maintainer/openstack%40gentoo.org https://repology.org/maintainer/xen%40gentoo.org https://repology.org/maintainer/python%40gentoo.org It also seems unacceptable to add dozens of packages straight to maintainer-needed, that does nothing but increase workload on those involved with GURU. app-protage/showbuild also has a non-GURU maintainer in metadata added by Alessandro. I would be unsurprised if there are others, but @gentoo.org addresses are easier to grep for.
@Alessandro, please either add yourself as the maintainer for these packages or drop to maintainer-needed asap. I admire your desire to save all these last-rited packages. However, please consider that sometimes there is a good reason a package is being removed, and please consider this reason before moving packages into ::guru. Also, remember that you are not alone. If you think a package should be saved but do not feel like adding yourself as the dedicated maintainer, it might be better to wait a bit. There might be someone else who also thinks the package should be saved and who does want to become the dedicated maintainer. @guru-trusted, in the future please also check if the metadata file contains only the committer as the maintainer (and in particular that it does not contain any @gentoo.org addresses). It is very easy to forget to update the metadata file when moving packages from somewhere else, it happens rather often that there is a left over @gentoo.org address (especially proxy-maint@gentoo.org is very often added to ::guru by accident).
"app-protage/showbuild also has a non-GURU maintainer in metadata added by Alessandro. I would be unsurprised if there are others, but @gentoo.org addresses are easier to grep for." Post back the output of these two commands: equery m showbuild pquery --repo guru --blame showbuild
(In reply to Alessandro Barbieri from comment #2) > "app-protage/showbuild also has a non-GURU maintainer in metadata added by > Alessandro. I would be unsurprised if there are others, but @gentoo.org > addresses are easier to grep for." > > Post back the output of these two commands: Or I'll link to the source of the issue directly: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/proj/guru.git/tree/app-portage/showbuild/metadata.xml#n11 You need upstream's consent to list them in metadata in this way. Do you have it?
> You need upstream's consent to list them in metadata in this way. There is no such a thing in the devmanual
Sorry, seems I'm wrong about that bit. In any case, please address what Andrew told you to address.
