[Mageia-dev] PLEASE READ. Package adoption campaign: status report (mine, and yours)

Fri Sep 30 00:57:22 CEST 2011

Please every packager read this mail, there's a call for feedback.
+
+An objective has been reached: there are more maintained non-perl 
+packages than unmaintained packages !
+- unmaintained: 2969
+- maintained (non-perl): 3169
+- maintained (perl): 2552
+
+We are still far from a totally maintained distro, so the next objectives are: 
+- find maintainers for core packages.
+- reduce the number of unmaintained packages to 2000
+
+Right now, I need your feedback, from each packager individually, with an 
+answer to the following questions: 
+
+- did you grab all the packages you want and can maintain already ? 
+(not a rhetorical question, this will help to know if there's still room for 
+improvement or if the current campaign has reached a limit). If the answer 
+is no, I would be very grateful if you could update your maintainer status 
+before next packager meeting.
+
+- are there some packages you would have wanted to help to maintain within 
+a group of maintainers, but for which you are not ready to put your name 
+alone ? Can you name a few examples ?
+
+- do you have comments about the package adoption campaign, or suggestions ?
+
+
+Now, various tools:
+- flat list, automatically updated: http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/unmaintained.txt
+- same list, manually updated a few minutes ago, with the number of commits 
+per packager for each unmaintained package:
+http://stormi.lautre.net/fichiers/mageia/unmaintained-per-committers.txt
+- (coming soon, from you if you want, or me later) a script that gives you the 
+list of unmaintained packages that are installed on your system
+
+Best regards
+
+Samuel Verschelde
+