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taipan67
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 Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 3:09 pm Post subject: How can i check if a package is maintained? |
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I've been following a few bugs related to a particular package from the portage-tree which are assigned correctly to the maintainer listed in the metadata.xml file, but none of them have received any input from said maintainer. I've also noticed the same individual being highly active on another project elsewhere online, so i'd like to ask (as delicately as possible) if this developer is still actively maintaining the package in question, and am unsure how best to do so...
Can i therefore ask if the moderators and/or developers here would prefer that i identify the package/maintainer/external-project (delete as appropriate) discreetly via PM or openly in this thread (or another dedicated location)? What is the S.O.P for this sort of thing?
Thanks in advance. 
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poly_poly-man
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do what I did - email the developer directly and ask what's going on..
that's why I'm now the read-edid maintainer... basically told John Fremlin about a particular bug I found while installing gentoo on my brother's box, and he gave me the package.
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| John Fremlin wrote: | | Thanks! Would you like to take over maintaining read-edid? |
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taipan67
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| poly_poly-man wrote: | do what I did - email the developer directly and ask what's going on..
that's why I'm now the read-edid maintainer... |
Thanks, i'll keep it in mind - although i'd have thought emails would be sent to the only address available every time a bug-report got updated, so i don't know if that mail-box is being monitored by the dev in question...
Can any developers reading this clarify how Bugzilla works with regard to notifying assignee's of updates..? 
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