[Mageia-dev] taking care of some packages not maintained in Mandriva

Thu Jan 13 23:17:37 CET 2011

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+-----Original Message-----
+>From: Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie>
+>Sent: Jan 13, 2011 1:07 PM
+>To: Mageia development mailing-list <mageia-dev at mageia.org>
+>Subject: Re: [Mageia-dev] taking care of some packages not maintained in	Mandriva
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+>'Twas brillig, and philippe makowski at 13/01/11 18:07 did gyre and gimble:
+>> Hello,
+>> 
+>> looking at http://maint.mandriva.com/listpkgs.php?owner=1
+>> I saw  duplicity and python-reportlab
+>> since I don't see them yet on the svn, I'm ok too taking care of them
+>> 
+>> I will certainly also add rubygems-fb for http://rubygems.org/gems/fb
+>> 
+>> no objection ?
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+>
+>I think it should be first come, first served for "no maintainer" pkgs.
+>If a "better" maintainer steps up in the future and everyone agrees,
+>then maintainership can be ceded later.
+>
+>Col
+>
+>-- 
+>
+>Colin Guthrie
+>mageia(at)colin.guthr.ie
+>http://colin.guthr.ie/
+>
+>Day Job:
+>  Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/]
+>Open Source:
+>  Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/]
+>  PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/]
+>  Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
+>
+>
+I took a look at a few of the unmaintained packages and being a novice packager, they were way beyond my skill set at this time. Eclipse being one of them, it contains multiple rpm,s many zip files and many patches.
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