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We can suppose that they are now "full" too. +</I>><i> - 6 are inactive (no packaging in months) +</I>><i> - 5 well-known active packagers never answered in 3 months either to the +</I>><i> mailing list or to my direct mails (sent at @mageia.org addresses), which is a +</I>><i> bit disappointing considering the amount of time I put into this campaign, but +</I>><i> I want to thank the vast majority who was really willing to help in this +</I>><i> campaign. +</I>Hello, I just inform that I was collecting the data for this action, the +stats are here <A HREF="http://kamil.mageia.org.pl/MageiaStats/">http://kamil.mageia.org.pl/MageiaStats/</A> it says about the +daily ration of the maintained and the unmaintained packages + how many +full-packagers maintain at least a single package. + +><i> The conclusion is that for most packagers the maintainers database is now up +</I>><i> to date, with maybe a few more orphan packages that could find a maintainer, +</I>><i> but not a lot. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I would have liked that there be no need for such a campaign, but events +</I>><i> showed that there's a real need for someone who sends reminders to the mailing +</I>><i> lists, pings packagers, points out important orphan packages. Waiting for +</I>><i> things to solve themselves doesn't work :) However, this demands a lot of +</I>><i> energy and I would be glad if someone could replace me in this task, because I +</I>><i> lack time to develop Mageia App Db. I volunteered only because there was a gap +</I>><i> to fulfill, but would be glad to see someone else become the official Orphan +</I>><i> Packages Protector. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> His/her work would be the following: +</I>><i> - identifiy (with bugsquad's help) the orphan packages that have lots of +</I>><i> unresolved bugs or are severely outdated, +</I>><i> - do the same for packages that have a maintainer but are in a similar +</I>><i> situation, +</I>><i> - try to find packagers or apprentices to take care of them. Not necessarily +</I>><i> make them become maintainer, but at least solve users bugs. +</I>><i> - try to find maintainers for orphan packages. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I'm willing to help with advice or tools but would like to not be the person +</I>><i> in charge, if possible, so that I can really make the Mageia App Db available +</I>><i> before Mageia 2. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Does someone volunteer? It is a job that demands a lot of energy and +</I>><i> confidence, but I think it would be a really useful contribution. Bugsquad is +</I>><i> already doing part of this, but they have other duties, so someone dedicated +</I>><i> to this task could maybe help. +</I>Before we start to do that, do you remember about these words: + >Currently the data about ownership of packages is tracked in +<A HREF="http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/maintdb.txt">http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/maintdb.txt</A> and umaintined packages are +listed in <A HREF="http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/unmaintained.txt.">http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/unmaintained.txt.</A> 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 <A HREF="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packaging_guidelines">https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packaging_guidelines</A> + +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. +><i> Best regards +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Samuel Verschelde +</I>Regards +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="010465.html">[Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="010282.html">[Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#10281">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#10281">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#10281">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#10281">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |