Bug 791040 – Multiple packages placed into maintainer-needed without packages-up-for-grabs mail

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Joonas Niilola 2021-05-19 08:11:28 UTC]

Hey, 

since I can't seem to get a hold of you in IRC, let's try this approach.

On 2021-05-16 you removed yourself as the maintainer from 18 packages, and placed them all into maintainer-needed state. And that's a good thing, if you don't use those packages, better to reassign them for someone else. But the devmanual states it's a requirement to send "packages up for grabs" mail to gentoo-dev and gentoo-dev-announce mailing lists after reassigning packages to maintainer-needed .
  https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/package-maintainers/index.html
  https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/package-maintainers/index.html#adding-and-removing-maintainers
  https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/threads/2021-05/

I've pinged you in IRC twice about it, and hope this bug will serve as a gentle reminder in case you weren't aware of this rule. We all obey it.

[Comment 1 William Hubbs 2021-05-22 19:13:11 UTC]

Sorry I missed your pings in irc.
However, I did send an email a while back about this [1], but no one
took the packages.

I did change my plan and not p.mask them, so if I should have sent
another email that's fine. Respond and let me know.


[1] https://groups.google.com/g/linux.gentoo.dev/c/WLiWJIZuztE

[Comment 2 Joonas Niilola 2021-05-22 19:26:44 UTC]

Hey, 

thanks for responding and clarifying. I tried searching for your mails, but maybe didn't look for mails sent in April anymore. I see it now, 
https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/1c262ea3f585d64fa42127948f9aca50

I definitely feel like this amount of packages, and popular ones such as django-stack deserve the attention to call for a new maintainer. Sorry for the inconvenience, all seems good here :)