[csw-maintainers] albumshaper removal

[Peter FELECAN]

Peter Bonivart <bonivart at opencsw.org> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński
> <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>
>> 2012/11/12 <pfelecan at opencsw.org>
>> > What's the rationale behind the removal of albumshaper from the catalog ?
>>
>> From another posting[1]:
>>
>> """While at it we dropped a whole bunch of packages probably no longer
>> useful or unmaintained. If any of your active packages is involved we
>> apologize in advance and would kindly request a rebuild."""
>>
>> So you have been apologized to for it in advance, and it's been
>> requested that you rebuild albumshaper and upload it.
>
> But in this case albumshaper was updated just a few months ago by
> Peter F himself so it should be considered actively maintained. Why
> did someone consider the package to be "not useful" without asking the
> maintainer first? Or is there a technical reason for it having to be
> rebuilt just now? That's not clear by the apology.
>
> I think it would have been better to publish a list of packages
> supposed to be deleted from the catalog and let others have an opinion
> about them instead of just removing them and apologizing in general
> for it. I from time to time get emails about not maintaining a package
> any longer so someone either updated my package or it got removed
> without me getting any info about it. It annoys me.

As I said, I wished only to have the rationale. But discussion is good
anyway and I agree with you.

-- 
Peter