[Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign

Sat Sep 24 09:46:28 CEST 2011

Am 23.09.2011 23:03, schrieb Samuel Verschelde:
+> The package adoption campaign is still active and there's still a lot of
+> unmaintained packages (3517 right now).
+>
+> 5115 packages are maintained, including:
+> - 2539 perl packages
+> - 2576 other packages
+>
+> The next objective is still to have more non-perl maintained packages than
+> unmaintained packages, which is more or less equivalent to reducing the number
+> of unmaintained packages under 3000.
+>
+> Here are 2 tools to help in this task:
+>
+> First tool : a list of important packages that are unmaintained. This list is
+> not exhaustive, it's just a choice of packages. I'll try to give such a list
+> regularly. The list is at the end of this mail.
+>
+> Second tool : the list of committers, with the number of commits (based on the
+> cauldron branch), for each unmaintained package. The list is updated manually,
+> I'll try to update it regularly but if someone volunteers to produce it
+> automatically, it would be appreciated. Alien has a script to get the number
+> of commits per package and per committer, you can ask him. Then you must filter
+> it to keep only unmaintained packages.
+>
+> The list is there:
+> http://stormi.lautre.net/fichiers/mageia/unmaintained-per-committers.txt
+>
+> Of course, there's no obligation to become maintainer of a package when you
+> committed changes to it in the past, and there's nothing preventing someone
+> with 0 or few commits to a package to maintain it if those who have more
+> commits don't want to.
+>
+> Now a list of unmaintained packages of interest, with their committers. Let's
+> try to shrink this list !
+>
+> amarok: mikala 14, fwang 12, ahmad 4, dmorgan 2
+> autoconf: blino 1
+> autoconf2.1: blino 2
+> bash-completion: ahmad 6, blino 2
+> cmake: ahmad 14, dmorgan 7, tv 2, mikala 2, fwang 2, kharec 1
+> firefox: tv 36, dmorgan 34, fwang 17, ahmad 10, erwan 5, rda 2, ennael 2, ...
+> mozilla-thunderbird: fwang 40, ahmad 22, dmorgan 11, doktor5000 2, ...
+> task-e17: ennael 4
+Those are on my list, Anssi still needs to grab them on my behalf.
+Maybe not found the time to to it yet ;)
+