Re: [PATCH 08/11] lrzsz: remove the recipe

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, 2019-11-21 at 17:36 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> There are also two higher level topics that should be discussed:
> 
> 1. Removal of maintainers.inc
> There is some nitpicking that every recipe needs a maintainer.
> For the package in question the maintainer is not involved in the 
> discussion, and doesn't seem to have been asked for support or
> asked regarding the suggested removal.

There are pros and cons to having it. Having people who help look after
specific recipes is appreciated. Some maintainers are more active than
others and people's free time varies. We found one of the corner cases
here, the fact there are some surprises no one.

If we remove it does the situation improve? I'd say not.

FWIW the number of recipes up to date has improved recently (or feels
to have) and the process does encourage people to send updates.

Reality is there are shades of grey. By that I mean that we are never
going to have a 100% definitive/defined process which works all of the
time in every case.

We're doing the best we can and I'm not sure this discussion is going
to be productive as I don't see a path where this discussion improves
things.

> 2. Who is responsible for fixing gettext breakages in meta-oe?
> Alexander or Khem?

or the wider community? They can certainly help.

Cheers,

Richard