[Mageia-dev] List of un-maintained packages

Thu Dec 1 04:35:49 CET 2011

nicolas vigier a écrit :
+> On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+>
+>    
+>> 'Twas brillig, and Manuel Hiebel at 29/11/11 22:33 did gyre and gimble:
+>>      
+>>> Feel free to add something in a wiki page: like here
+>>> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packaging#Main_packages_by_category
+>>>
+>>> Personally (and it's going the same for the bugsquad), for new bugs, we
+>>> add in cc the committers of the package, but if you don't like that, we
+>>> can go with the specific groups way.
+>>>        
+>> I certainly don't mind being CC'ed in in these cases and it's definitely
+>> been useful so I'm very much in favour of the bugsquad doing thing until
+>> anything more official gets done.
+>>      
+> I don't know if we need something else than what we have now. We can do
+> it like this :
+>   - Sometimes we have a few people maintaining a package, and someone
+>     agrees to act as official maintainer (listed in maintdb), have bugs
+>     assigned to him and forward them if needed to other co-maintainers of
+>     the package
+>   - Sometimes we have a few people maintaining a package, but nobody wants
+>     to be official maintainer, so bugsquad forward bugs to last committers
+>     of the package
+>
+> Or maybe what we need is something to automatically add people in CC for
+> some packages ?
+>
+>    
+This last point sounds like a really good idea.
+Even without a official maintainer, such packages will get better support.
+Probably less work for the bug squad as well.
+
+-- 
+André
+
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