[Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign

Sat Sep 24 17:38:35 CEST 2011

Am 24.09.2011 10:01, schrieb Maarten Vanraes:
+> 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?
+>
+As long as i haven't gotten a full packager account, feel free to grab them.
+In the end, it comes down to this: either a package is maintained or dropped.
+I don't want these packages dropped, so this is my logical conclusion.
+
+Remember: This doesn't mean nobody else can commit ...
+