Garfield's Opensource News: Sep 18, 2008

18 September 2008

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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0893 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 bzip2 Update

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Re: Dormant beats

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Josh Bressers wrote:

> I find this thread a bit annoying. My beat has been dormant for quite
> a while, due to many many other things going on right now. Now if
> someone wanted to take it over I wouldn't complain, but on the same
> note, nobody has contacted me asking if it's abandoned (which it's
> not, just on vacation).
>
> I'd suggest you con tat the beat authors before you start giving away
> their beats.

I figured that was the obvious first step that anyone doing a "checking
on dormant beats" task would make. I apologize for not stating it
explicitly, I just assumed that anyone who was going to inventory
dormant beats would be smart enough to first contact the current beat
owner.

That's just simple common sense/courtesy, IMHO!

--Max

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Re: Dormant beats

----- "Max Spevack" <mspevack@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Sep 2008, Oisin Feeley wrote:
>
> > We currently have four or five Beats which have seen no activity
> > during a few weeks. I'm not clear as to what the status of the beats
>
> > are. Should we be specifically recruiting for any of them?
>
> I think we should.
>

I find this thread a bit annoying. My beat has been dormant for quite a while,
due to many many other things going on right now. Now if someone wanted to
take it over I wouldn't complain, but on the same note, nobody has contacted
me asking if it's abandoned (which it's not, just on vacation).

I'd suggest you con tat the beat authors before you start giving away their beats.

--
JB

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Re: Dormant beats

On Sun, 14 Sep 2008, Oisin Feeley wrote:

> We currently have four or five Beats which have seen no activity
> during a few weeks. I'm not clear as to what the status of the beats
> are. Should we be specifically recruiting for any of them?

I think we should.

--Max

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