dev-util/rebar: Drop to maint-needed

[atlaua]

When djc dropped maintainership of erlang, I asked on g-dev if someone could take over rebar, but noone stepped up for either erlang or rebar. Since I haven't used it for quite a while and don't really have time for it, I'd like to relinquish maintainership.

rebar is EOL anyway, with a replacement being developed at https://github.com/rebar/rebar3. Unfortunately, it can't be dropped from the tree yet due to a number of revdeps.

[gentoo-repo-qa-bot]

Pull Request assignment

Areas affected: ebuilds
Packages affected: dev-util/rebar

dev-util/rebar: @atlaua, @djc, @gentoo/proxy-maint

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[monsieurp]

Sad to see you go. :(

[atlaua]

I'm not going anywhere, and I'll continue to maintain my other packages. :-)

It's just that I haven't used anything erlang-related in quite a while, and don't have the time to work on it just for fun.

[atlaua]

Btw, didn't there use to be a mail alias to which to assign bugs of unmaintained packages? maintainer-needed@gentoo.org or something like that? I can't find it right now. It's just about https://bugs.gentoo.org/587698, which I assume has been fixed in later rebar versions anyway.

[atlaua]

Right, maintainer-needed, just as I thought. I just had a PBKAC when I searched for it.

[jonasstein]

Was djc@gentoo.org removed by intention?

[atlaua]

He was only proxying the package for me. Since he stepped down as the erlang maintainer, I assume he doesn't have any interest in rebar either.

[jonasstein]

Perhaps we should ask him. The package needs someone to care anyway and we would be perfect.
@atlaua you wrote "rebar is EOL anyway" can you provide details so that we can decide, if it should stay in the tree, or get tree cleaned? Thank you.

[djc]

Nope, I don't have the bandwidth to maintain this, either -- should really m-n it.

[jonasstein]

@djc OK, thank you for your reply. And should it be tree cleaned, if we find nobody for the next generation, or is it still usable?

[djc]

I don't know how serious https://bugs.gentoo.org/587698 is. I would say we leave it there until there are more bugs about it.

[jonasstein]

please do not forget to write a Package up for grabs: dev-util/rebar mail with some info for the new maintainer. Thank you.

[djc]

@atlaua would you mind sending that email?

[atlaua]

I've sent a notification to gentoo-dev.

@djc: Thanks again for handling the last couple of rebar bumps for me! For a while, I'd completely forgotten I was still supposedly the maintainer. :)