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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20111128/70ef23e8/attachment-0001.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20111128/70ef23e8/attachment-0001.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..adf98b59d --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20111128/70ef23e8/attachment-0001.html @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +<div class="gmail_quote">2011/11/28 Bruno Cornec <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Bruno.Cornec@hp.com">Bruno.Cornec@hp.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> +Hello,<br> +<br> +I received recently a mail from Samuel Verschelde asking me to look<br> +again at the list of un-maintained packages in mageia (either<br> +<a href="http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/unmaintained.txt" target="_blank">http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/unmaintained.txt</a> or by mgarepo maintdb<br> +get | grep nobody). Thanks for the reminder !<br> +<br> +I was really surprised of what I found, and I'm pretty sure some people<br> +have not registered themselves as package maintainer correctly. I can't<br> +believe we could have a working distribution without people in charge<br> +of:<br> +attr<br> +basesystem<br> +bind<br> +bison<br> +busybox<br> +cpio<br> +curl<br> +cvs<br> +docbook-*<br> +dosfstools<br> +findutils<br> +flex<br> +gdb<br> +ghostscript<br> +grub<br> +gzip<br> +initscripts<br> +inn<br> +keychain<br> +less<br> +lilo<br> +locales<br> +logrotate<br> +lzma<br> +mageia-release<br> +man<br> +man-pages<br> +mkinitrd<br> +mt-st<br> +mtools<br> +ncurses<br> +netcat-traditional<br> +ntp<br> +openjade<br> +openssl<br> +openvpn<br> +pam<br> +parted<br> +passwd<br> +procmail<br> +sane<br> +sgml-common<br> +shorewall<br> +sqlite<br> +sudo<br> +sympa<br> +sysstat<br> +tcp_wrappers<br> +tcpdump<br> +tcsh<br> +termcap<br> +traceroute<br> +udev<br> +util-linux-ng<br> +xinetd<br> +xmodmap<br> +(And this is really a list of what looks to me mandatory, I'm sure each<br> +here will make its own, with differences).<br> +<br> +As much as I'm willing to maintain packages, I don't think I'm the<br> +most qualified to take some of these. However, a distro without them<br> +maintained has no future :-(<br> +<br> +So I guess there is something wrong here. Or are we so few that nobody<br> +want to take these ?<br> +<br> +I'm willing to contribute, already "own" 29 pkgs (but some of these<br> +because I thought I'd rather take them than leave unmaintained, even if<br> +surprised) but don't have that much time, nor expertise to add the full<br> +list !<br> +<br> +Any taker ?<br> +Greetings,<br> +Bruno.<br> +<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--<br> +Open Source & Linux Profession Lead EMEA <a href="http://opensource.hp.com" target="_blank">http://opensource.hp.com</a><br> +Open Source Solutions Initiative Chief Technologist <a href="http://hpintelco.net" target="_blank">http://hpintelco.net</a><br> +FLOSS projects: <a href="http://mondorescue.org" target="_blank">http://mondorescue.org</a> <a href="http://project-builder.org" target="_blank">http://project-builder.org</a><br> +Musique ancienne? <a href="http://www.musique-ancienne.org" target="_blank">http://www.musique-ancienne.org</a> <a href="http://www.medieval.org" target="_blank">http://www.medieval.org</a><br> +</font></span></blockquote></div><br>I can maintain passwd <br> |