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

Sat Dec 10 12:14:56 CET 2011

Le samedi 10 décembre 2011 11:14:38, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> Le jeudi 08 décembre 2011 à 18:51 +0800, Funda Wang a écrit :
+> > 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.
+
+You're explaining why having orphan packages is bad and it's hard to disagree, 
+but I fail to see why such a mailing list for people who are ready to devote 
+some time to orphan packages would make things worse. It's not because it's 
+not the ideal solution that it's bad, is it?
+
+Samuel
+
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