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

Fri Jan 14 04:45:35 CET 2011

On 01/13/2011 02:17 PM, genomega wrote:
+>
+>
+> -----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
+>>
+>> '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 ?
+>>
+>> 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.
+>
+Being an Eclipse user, I'd love to try updating the Eclipse packages. 
+Alas, that's one very complex build. Perhaps porting the spec from 
+Fedora or another RPM-based distribution using a more modern Eclipse 
+would be easier than trying to update what is already there.
+
+Once my mentoring starts, I'd certainly be up for trying my hand at 
+that, along with some of the other simpler unmaintained packages that I 
+would personally use.
+
+  - Michael
+