[Mageia-dev] MANDATORY READ : 7 days before misc unleashes CERBERUS !

Sun Oct 9 11:22:43 CEST 2011

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:06:07PM +0200, Samuel Verschelde wrote:
+> You may know it or not, many packages have no maintainer. This is due to the 
+> fact that we had no maintainer database when we boostrapped the distribution.
+> 
+> Excluding perl packages (a lot of packages, all maintained by jq), we have :
+> 1118 packages with a maintainer
+> 4931 without a maintainer !
+> 
+> Full list: http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/maintdb.txt
+> 
+> As a result, many bugs are sleeping in bugzilla, because the triage team 
+> doesn't know who to assign them to. If we want our distribution to succeed, 
+> this is a situation that can't continue.
+> 
+[...]
+> Packagers with submit rights can participate, but apprentices too, because we 
+> really need everybody's help here ! If your mentor agrees to take the 
+> maintainership instead of you until you get commit rights, tell him what 
+> packages you want to maintain.
+> 
+> In the following days, all your keyboard should see is: 
+> 
+> mgarepo maintdb set packagename yourlogin
+> 
+> Best regards
+> 
+> Samuel Verschelde, going to grab some packages
+Ok, I’m grabbing my packages there are quite a lot of them that should
+disappear now.
+
+Though, I’m in the process of moving to another city atm, so I’m very
+busy at the moment and can’t do a lot wrt maintainance of my packages.
+
+Hopefully everything will get sorted sooner or later, but I don’t expect
+to have much time until christmas…
+
+Sorry for not announcing this earlier, but personal life got in the way
+sooner than I expected :/
+
+Please don’t hesitate to contact me by direct mail if you’re stuck on
+some of my packages like Stormi did a few days ago, I read them (but not
+daily)
+
+Best regards,
+-- 
+Rémy CLOUARD
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