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

Thu Dec 8 13:16:28 CET 2011

Le jeudi 8 décembre 2011 13:14:26, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> Le jeudi 8 décembre 2011 11:51:46, 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 of unresolved bugs or are severely outdated,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.
+> 
+> If forgot about this idea, and support it without hesitation.
+> 
+
+On second thoughts, the mailing list should not be called "nobody" but rather 
+"orphanage" or something that shows to bug reporters that there are packagers 
+behind it.
+
+Samuel
+