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

Wed Sep 14 23:06:07 CEST 2011

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.
+
+Misc has a proposal to solve this : the next first submitter to an unmaintained 
+package will automatically get maintainership for it ! And after some time, if 
+a package still has no maintainer, it is dropped from the distribution.
+
+However, before we come to this, I obtained a little delay by promising I will 
+try to make YOU grab as much packages as possible !
+
+SO PLEASE SHOW YOU'RE WITH ME, and demonstrate to misc that we haven't tried 
+hard enough to make the packagers step in and become maintainers :)
+
+The objective for the 7 following days is to reach 2000 packages with a 
+maintainer (not counting perl packages, still). I will send you daily results. 
+Deadline is the next packager meeting.
+
+GO !
+
+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
+