9:21 a.m.
I recently picked up the firestarter package because it was orphaned
and I know a few people who still use it. There were only a couple of
small bugs opened against it so I figured I would hack at them as soon
as I was able. But this morning there was a bug filed against it to
port it to PolicyKit and I've run into two problems. 1) I know very
little about PolicyKit other than a general overview of the purpose it
serves and 2) I don't think it would really be worth doing all that
work for a package that hasn't had any upstream activity in over 4
years. So my question is this, should I orphan this package such that
someone else who feels the efforts wouldn't be wasted may take the
time to perform the work or should I just retire the package?
-Adam
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9:27 a.m.
On Wed, 27 May 2009, Adam Miller wrote:
I recently picked up the firestarter package because it was orphaned
and I know a few people who still use it. There were only a couple of
small bugs opened against it so I figured I would hack at them as soon
as I was able. But this morning there was a bug filed against it to
port it to PolicyKit and I've run into two problems. 1) I know very
little about PolicyKit other than a general overview of the purpose it
serves and 2) I don't think it would really be worth doing all that
work for a package that hasn't had any upstream activity in over 4
years. So my question is this, should I orphan this package such that
someone else who feels the efforts wouldn't be wasted may take the
time to perform the work or should I just retire the package?
with no offense to the pkg itself - if it has not been maintained in that
many years - then retire it.
I think, in general, we need more people willing to put out
to pasture unmaintained pkgs that are in need of new
development/maintainance.
-sv
9:29 a.m.
On 05/27/2009 07:51 PM, Adam Miller wrote:
I recently picked up the firestarter package because it was orphaned
and I know a few people who still use it. There were only a couple of
small bugs opened against it so I figured I would hack at them as soon
as I was able. But this morning there was a bug filed against it to
port it to PolicyKit and I've run into two problems. 1) I know very
little about PolicyKit other than a general overview of the purpose it
serves and 2) I don't think it would really be worth doing all that
work for a package that hasn't had any upstream activity in over 4
years. So my question is this, should I orphan this package such that
someone else who feels the efforts wouldn't be wasted may take the
time to perform the work or should I just retire the package?
If upstream is dead and you are not going to do the work, just close the
bug as WONTFIX. Yes, I filed the RFE in the first place but I wasn't
aware that upstream is dead. So don't let that scare you from continuing
to be the maintainer of it. Of course, if anyone is willing to do the
work, that would be nice but probably not worth the effort if it is
going to be a big patch.
Rahul
9:33 a.m.
If upstream is dead and you are not going to do the work, just close
the
bug as WONTFIX. Yes, I filed the RFE in the first place but I wasn't
aware that upstream is dead. So don't let that scare you from continuing
to be the maintainer of it. Of course, if anyone is willing to do the
work, that would be nice but probably not worth the effort if it is
going to be a big patch.
Rahul
I would honestly rather retire the package than do a WONTFIX, if the
project as a whole is going the direction of PolicyKit and upstream is
dead then I don't want to keep old and busted cruft around the
repositories as Fedora continues to look towards the future.
-Adam
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11:39 a.m.
Adam Miller <maxamillion <at> gmail.com> writes:
> If upstream is dead and you are not going to do the work, just close the
> bug as WONTFIX. Yes, I filed the RFE in the first place but I wasn't
> aware that upstream is dead. So don't let that scare you from continuing
dead then I don't want to keep old and busted cruft around the
repositories as Fedora continues to look towards the future.
-Adam
Any chance of filing a set of RFEs against system-config-firewall for the
features that firestarter has that system-config-firewall is still missing?
3:54 p.m.
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Cry <cry_regarder(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Any chance of filing a set of RFEs against system-config-firewall for the
features that firestarter has that system-config-firewall is still missing?
I like that idea, I've retired firestarter and will begin to file RFEs
once I outline some features as well as pull the git repo and help
with the development.
-Adam
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9:29 p.m.
On 05/28/2009 02:24 AM, Adam Miller wrote:
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Cry <cry_regarder(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
>
> Any chance of filing a set of RFEs against system-config-firewall for the
> features that firestarter has that system-config-firewall is still missing?
>
I like that idea, I've retired firestarter and will begin to file RFEs
once I outline some features as well as pull the git repo and help
with the development.
Thanks Adam.
Rahul
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