[Mageia-dev] Fwd: [Mageia-discuss] PROPOSAL: so, you are already contributor, do you want to be maintainer?

Thu Aug 25 20:27:36 CEST 2011

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 01:35:23PM +0200, Jerome wrote in
+<20110825113523.GI14995 at mongueurs.net>:
+>On 11/08/24 15:48 -0500, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote:
+>> e) a top of 70 packages to maintain is a good limit for people, there is no
+>> sense people that maintains 500 packages. we call this single poing of
+>> failure.
+>
+>i beg to differ:
+>
+>    $ mgarepo maintdb get|grep jquelin|wc -l
+>    2505
+>
+>i'm *really* updating those packages by myself, with the help of some
+>scripts (i blogged about magpie, and also posted here). and i'm not
+>aware of anyone really using perl for dev on mageia to object that i'm
+>doing a bad job...
+>
+>now, kharec is joining me as perl stack maintainer, and i have
+>an apprentice willing to join perl maintainance fun as well. so i guess
+>it alleviates your spof argument...
+
+I think Luis meant it more as a ball park figure rather than a hard limit. 
+That is, people should only maintain as many packages as they can actually 
+manage and not set themselves as maintainer for a package for reasons of 
+seeing their name in print.
+
+Also, in debian for example it is not easy to become a maintainer as all 
+of the 'fun' packages are taken already. I don't think we are in such a 
+luxorious position yet.
+
+Cheers,
+
+Remco
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