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

Fri Sep 30 01:54:45 CEST 2011

On 29 September 2011 15:57, Samuel Verschelde <stormi at laposte.net> wrote:
+> 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
+>
+
+I can take, well mikala can take hugin, libpano13 and
+mageia-gfxboot-theme for me unless anyone else wants them and if its
+ok with mikala.
+
+Schultz.
+