[Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign

Sat Sep 24 10:01:24 CEST 2011

Op zaterdag 24 september 2011 09:46:28 schreef Florian Hubold:
+> 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 ;)
+
+no offense, and i'm not complaining, but aren't you taking on a bit too much?
+