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

Thu Dec 8 13:13:28 CET 2011

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
+