[Mageia-dev] packaging savoir-vivre

Thu Dec 29 22:42:58 CET 2011

> W dniu 28.12.2011 23:26, Maarten Vanraes pisze:
+>> Op dinsdag 20 december 2011 01:41:38 schreef Kamil Rytarowski:
+>>> Hello!
+>>>
+>> imho the best solution is that everyone checks if there's a maintainer
+>> for it
+>> and asks maintainer first...
+>>
+>> i mean, it's all nice that it's in the spec file, but i think people who
+>> bump,
+>> rarely look inside spec file... (not saying any names)
+>>
+>> if something has got to be checked, maintainership is a good place to
+>> start
+> Well, but it doesn't seem to work. In my humble opinion we need it
+> guaranteed by our infrastructure.
+>> if we would have some kind of page which would list the activeness of
+>> maintainers, via gathering info from commits/bugzilla/mailinglist/forum/
+>> stuff,
+>> that could be a nice place too. then we could see if this maintainer is
+>> actually inactive or not. i would hope this would lessen the amount of
+>> people
+>> just bumping stuff if they don't maintain it...
+> I like an idea of a web page with statistics (but not so widely
+> gathering data) and I dislike the idea of pinpointing packagers who are
+> doing something wrong (like active on packaging, inactive on
+> discussions), if our infrastructure will be good on this, then there
+> won't be need to pinpoint people and their mistakes.. Of course I don't
+> count mindful abusing, trolling etc.
+>
+
+i didn't mean detailed results, this is not about mistakes, and definately
+since we're open source and community based.
+
+we all give whatever time we can spare...
+
+it's more about using multiple sources to determine if a user is away for
+longer than (s)he normally is...
+
+imho it doesn't need to show any data whatsoever, something like:
+
+query identity user: "alien" ==> user is active/somewhat active/reasonably
+active/away for a while/away for quite a while/likely ceased living
+
+it could even be a combination of what usual intervals are and say
+something like, "likely there in a couple of hours"
+