Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for Fedora 20

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On 08/07/2013 04:38 AM, Christopher Meng wrote:
I don't understand why manaplus was orphaned just after 8 months it
got into Fedora.

If you can't keep it, don't package it.

Hello,

I was the maintainer of manaplus and the one who brought it into Fedora.

Back then manaplus was supposed to replace mana as the client for TMW. However TMW does not seem to be dropping mana support now.

Especially since I am a mana developer myself I never really used manaplus a lot. So later on my motivation to put work into manaplus was slowly fading away. Every time a update was released (every 2 weeks) I was slowly starting to get annoyed by doing new builds every time, testing them / reporting issues back / evaluating whether it really makes sense to do an update (because sometimes updates only brought not significant changes).

Additionally I started to work recently and I will start to study soon too, so I have even less time. I did not really want to spend the remaining time on a package which is no fun for me to maintain. (I would have never found your mail here if somebody would not have pointed me here).

My alternative would have been to simply let the package getting outdated and feeling bad about that each two weeks. Since I do not want either of that i orphaned it.

Regards,
Erik


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