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

[Michael Scherer]

Le jeudi 08 décembre 2011 à 18:51 +0800, Funda Wang a écrit :
> 2011/12/8 Samuel Verschelde <stormi at laposte.net>:
> > His/her work would be the following:
> > - identifiy (with bugsquad's help) the orphan packages that have lots of
> > unresolved bugs or are severely outdated,
> > - do the same for packages that have a maintainer but are in a similar
> > situation,
> > - try to find packagers or apprentices to take care of them. Not necessarily
> > make them become maintainer, but at least solve users bugs.
> > - try to find maintainers for orphan packages.
> I would suggest that registering nobody as a mailing list, so that
> every interested packagers could join to help.

No.

For the reasons already highlighted several time, this would not work.
That's the situation at mandriva, and we know well the problem it cause
( aka, obscure communication, no one really in charge of a rpm, so not
one feeling responsible for bugs or anything ).

Either a package is maintained and should be marked as such, or it is
not, and should be marked as such, with a unfortunate fate for him
sooner or later. 

The goal is not to align lots of unmaintained packages, but to have a
maintained distribution. People have been complaining for quality since
a lot of time, and that's the only way to have it. 
If not, this end like Mandriva, people see and fill bugs, they are not
fixed, and no one care. This greatly undermine the confidence in the
distribution in the long run, and so while having maintainer is not a
magic solution, this is a important step in the right direction. 

A free-for-all pool is just a mess.  

-- 
Michael Scherer