[Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le jeudi 8 décembre 2011 12:33:28, Kamil Rytarowski a écrit :
> Hello, I just inform that I was collecting the data for this action, the
> stats are here http://kamil.mageia.org.pl/MageiaStats/ it says about the
> daily ration of the maintained and the unmaintained packages + how many
> full-packagers maintain at least a single package.
> 

Thanks, those stats are cool :)

> Before we start to do that, do you remember about these words:
> Currently the data about ownership of packages is tracked in
> http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/maintdb.txt and umaintined packages are
> listed in http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/unmaintained.txt. This will
> be better integrated and managed at a later point, and we will have a
> grace period for unmaintained packages. After the grace period, packages
> without a maintainer will be reviewed and any packages without a
> maintainer will be nominated for deletion.
> 
> source https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packaging_guidelines
> 
> I look into many really abandoned packages, without any interest among
> the packagers, and for some of them it's even quite hard to find any
> on-line resource.. For example cpuinfo, it's a /proc/* parser for CPU
> related data. It's 2-3 years old (so what about the new hardware?!),
> even the author of the software isn't responding to e-mail to just point
> a working URL for his software.
> 

This example is not really about the package having no maintainer, but rather 
for it being dead upstream, which often leads to removal of the distribution 
unless a packager becomes the de-facto upstream and has time, willingness and 
knowledge to patch it when needed (works also if it's being maintained in 
other distributions).

Samuel