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

Thu Dec 8 14:15:23 CET 2011

W dniu 08.12.2011 13:13, Samuel Verschelde pisze:
+>> 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
+But what's up with the time after the grace period?
+