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

Wed Dec 14 23:19:40 CET 2011

Le samedi 10 décembre 2011 à 12:14 +0100, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> 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?
+
+Because such a mailling list would just incite people to add package and
+never remove them, because "that's not really unmaintained, that's
+collectively maintained". Which is just a non sense.
+
+That's how it was in Mandriva, so the proposition is just not helping.
+
+Each time a cleaning was attempted, someone said "but come on, we are
+taking care of it collectively, so you cannot remove, it could still
+help". And so almost nothing was removed.
+
+I see no reason to think it will be different. Same situation, same
+spirit, same users, same outcome. 
+
+Either people agree that we should have no orphans, and then the list is
+useless, or they think we should keep orphans, and then this is causing
+issues. Middle ground ( like "let's keep orphan for X months" ) are just
+a variation of the first one, and so we would just be discussing the
+duration.
+
+So let's try to make a proposal, if there is a list, after how many
+months should a package be removed from the repository if not maintained
+( and by maintained, I do not say "not changes or anything", I really
+mean "no one listed as maintainer" ) ?
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+