gimp-print-cups

[Mike A. Harris]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:

>Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:24:34 -0500 (EST)
>From: Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com>
>To: List for Fedora Package Maintainers <fedora-maintainers at redhat.com>
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>Subject: Re: gimp-print-cups
>
>
>Perhaps the right thing to do in this kind of case is to:
>
>1. Move the package into extras.  If no owner *immediately* steps forward, 
>tag it as "unmaintained".  Unmaintained modules sit in CVS but never get 
>built.
>
>2. Come up with a mechanism for notifying folks about the unmaintained 
>modules.
>
>3. If a module is unmaintained for a certain period of time, we may choose 
>to dump it from CVS.  Or not.
>
>That way, something like xloadimage gets archived until that time if/when 
>someone chooses to pick it back up.
>
>Just thinkin'.

I agree completely with this approach, and think it is a nice 
organized way to tackle things.  The only change I would make, 
would be to get you to reply underneath postings instead of on 
top, but that's just a technical detail.  ;o)

TTYL


/me runs



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