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

Fri Sep 30 05:38:29 CEST 2011

Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> 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 ?
+>    
+
+I would like to help to maintain these package groups:
+Gnome, Gtk (non-gnome-specific), system tools (drak* and associated).
+
+Other package groups I can see are KDE, kernel and drivers, perl, fonts, 
+and language packs (maybe combined with spell checkers).
+  Depending of course on the interests of other packagers.
+We should decide some rules as to how to well define a group and the 
+packages it contains.
+To implement groups, we need to be able to support multiple maintainers 
+for groups.  No reason why that couldn't support multiple maintainers 
+for individual packages as well.
+We could even have groups such as Libreoffice or Firefox, including all 
+packages associated with the application.
+
+> - do you have comments about the package adoption campaign, or suggestions ?
+>    
+
+Excellent campaign.  After we attain 2000, let's aim for 1500 :)
+
+> Now, various tools:
+> - flat list, automatically updated: http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/unmaintained.txt
+>    
+
+In this list Eterm is listed as unmaintained, but it has been renamed to 
+eterm,
+  maintained by anssi.
+Filerunner has been renamed to filerunner, but it is still unmaintained.
+This doubling of names also appears in maintdb.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
+>    
+
+Good idea.  I might try doing that :)
+Since I'm not (yet) a packager, I load maintdb.txt into Libreoffice and 
+use some macros to give me a list of (maintained and) unmaintained 
+packages, as well as the count by maintainer.
+I'm also using that to select packages I want to maintain.
+If anyone is interested (particularly apprentices?), I could make a 
+version for you.
+Just tell me what you want.
+
+> Best regards
+>
+> Samuel Verschelde
+>    
+
+Regards :)
+
+-- 
+André
+
+