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

Sat Dec 10 11:14:38 CET 2011

Le jeudi 08 décembre 2011 à 18:51 +0800, 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 unresolved bugs or are severely outdated,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.
+
+No.
+
+For the reasons already highlighted several time, this would not work.
+That's the situation at mandriva, and we know well the problem it cause
+( aka, obscure communication, no one really in charge of a rpm, so not
+one feeling responsible for bugs or anything ).
+
+Either a package is maintained and should be marked as such, or it is
+not, and should be marked as such, with a unfortunate fate for him
+sooner or later. 
+
+The goal is not to align lots of unmaintained packages, but to have a
+maintained distribution. People have been complaining for quality since
+a lot of time, and that's the only way to have it. 
+If not, this end like Mandriva, people see and fill bugs, they are not
+fixed, and no one care. This greatly undermine the confidence in the
+distribution in the long run, and so while having maintainer is not a
+magic solution, this is a important step in the right direction. 
+
+A free-for-all pool is just a mess.  
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+