[Mageia-dev] List of un-maintained packages

Tue Nov 29 23:33:09 CET 2011

Le mardi 29 novembre 2011 à 17:36 +0000, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+> 'Twas brillig, and Bruno Cornec at 28/11/11 12:41 did gyre and gimble:
+> > Hello,
+> > 
+> > I received recently a mail from Samuel Verschelde asking me to look
+> > again at the list of un-maintained packages in mageia (either
+> > http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/unmaintained.txt or by mgarepo maintdb
+> > get | grep nobody). Thanks for the reminder !
+> > 
+> > I was really surprised of what I found, and I'm pretty sure some people
+> > have not registered themselves as package maintainer correctly. I can't
+> > believe we could have a working distribution without people in charge
+> [...]
+> > (And this is really a list of what looks to me mandatory, I'm sure each
+> > here will make its own, with differences).
+> 
+> As I've said before I'm happy to be part of a group that maintains some
+> core things (udev, pam, initscripts to name a few) but I don't have the
+> time or energy to be the sole official maintainer.
+> 
+> Until someone actually implements some sensible way of handling groups,
+> I doubt the maintainership (or rather the lack thereof) of some of the
+> core packages will change much. :s
+> 
+> Sadly I've not really got the time or energy to look at implementing the
+> afore mentioned sensible way of handling groups either!
+> 
+> Col
+> 
+
+Feel free to add something in a wiki page: like here
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packaging#Main_packages_by_category
+
+Personally (and it's going the same for the bugsquad), for new bugs, we
+add in cc the committers of the package, but if you don't like that, we
+can go with the specific groups way.
+
+Committer list of each unmaintained packages:
+http://stormi.lautre.net/fichiers/mageia/unmaintained-per-committers.txt
+
+
+-- 
+Manuel Hiebel
+http://netiquette.fr/
+
+