Bug 633314

Summary:	Proxy-maintained packages without a proxy
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Proxy Maintainers <proxy-maint>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	arfrever.fta, floppym, jstein, om, tomboy64, wadecline, yana
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michał Górny archtester

2017-10-02 21:31:56 UTC

The following packages do not specify any @gentoo.org addresses, so they are supposedly missing a proxy. If proxy-maint team maintains them, we should add it to metadata.xml and all the bugs. If somebody else proxies for the dev, he should add himself.


net-irc/inspircd          Wade Cline       -- I think it's proxy-maint
net-irc/quasselgrep       Scott Martin     -- likewise
net-wireless/broadcom-sta tomboy64         -- likewise
dev-util/gyp              Arfrever         -- no clue
app-cdr/b5i2iso           Yegor Timoshenko -- used to be gpm but he's gone
app-cdr/bchunk            likewise
app-cdr/ccd2iso           likewise

Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2017-10-02 21:36:33 UTC

I often proxy commits for Arfrever, but I have no desire to be copied on random bug reports for those packages.

Is it written somewhere that every package must have a gentoo.org maintainer?

Comment 2 Michał Górny archtester

2017-10-02 21:48:17 UTC

Yes, in the same place which says packages can be maintained by non-Gentoo devs.

Long story short, we need someone to track proxied maintainers. If a Gentoo developer goes MIA, we have Undertakers with procedures to reassign packages and things eventually get resolved. With proxied maintainers, things can go to /dev/null for a very long time without anybody noticing.

Comment 3 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2017-10-02 22:00:42 UTC

> Yes, in the same place which says packages can be maintained by non-Gentoo devs.

Please provide a reference. I asked the question because I am not aware of any policy on this, and I don't know where to look for it.

Comment 4 Michał Górny archtester

2017-10-03 04:52:22 UTC

That meant it's not written.

Comment 5 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2017-10-03 15:03:38 UTC

I think an automated process for identifying idle maintainers in general would yield more consistent results than relying on individual developers to notice when people stop sending patches or go silent on Bugzilla.

Comment 6 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2017-10-03 21:34:56 UTC

(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #0)
> net-wireless/broadcom-sta tomboy64         -- likewise

I'm ont using broadcom-sta any more, so I'm not proxying commits (I haven't seen any activity from him in quite some time anyway)

Comment 7 Sam Jorna (wraeth) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-10-03 22:32:26 UTC

net-irc/quasselgrep fixed in 5e26e25a221028c2679694a12e9516a0af372932. Thanks for the heads-up.

Comment 8 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2017-11-11 22:23:09 UTC

https://github.com/mm1ke/gentoo-scripts this tool can search for metadata files which have proxy-maint@gentoo.org but no proxy-maintainer included (eg: no non-gentoo mail address)

We fixed all packages which were found by that script.