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

Fri Sep 30 05:41:47 CEST 2011

On 30.09.2011 01:57, Samuel Verschelde 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.
+
+Yes, for now at least.
+
+> - 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 ?
+
+Packages like 'mesa' come to mind.
+
+> - 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
+
+rpm -qa --qf '%{sourcerpm}\n' | sed -r \
+	's,(^.+)-[^-]+-[^-]+\.src.rpm$,\1,' | sort -u | grep -Fx \
+	--color=never "$(curl -s \
+	"http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/unmaintained.txt")"
+
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+