[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] MANDATORY READ : 7 days before misc unleashes CERBERUS !

[Guillaume Rousse]

Le 15/09/2011 20:43, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
> Op donderdag 15 september 2011 13:52:32 schreef Thierry Vignaud:
>> On 14 September 2011 23:06, Samuel Verschelde<stormi at laposte.net>  wrote:
>>> Misc has a proposal to solve this : the next first submitter to an
>>> unmaintained package will automatically get maintainership for it ! And
>>> after some time, if a package still has no maintainer, it is dropped
>>> from the distribution.
>>
>> At least the one importing it should get it by default...
>>
>>> SO PLEASE SHOW YOU'RE WITH ME, and demonstrate to misc that we haven't
>>> tried hard enough to make the packagers step in and become maintainers
>>> :)
>>>
>>> The objective for the 7 following days is to reach 2000 packages with a
>>> maintainer (not counting perl packages, still). I will send you daily
>>> results.
>>
>> Done my job.
>> btw we're now at:
>> 4431 nobody
>> 4154 someone (inluding perl*)
>> 1621 someone (not inluding perl*)
>
> I have a script ready to set the last comittor (that's a full packager) as
> maintainer. perhaps it can be activated before the GREAT PURGE.
That's quite ridiculous to assign someone a title of 'maintainer', if 
he's not ready to assume to corresponding responsability for. As a user, 
I prefer a package clearly labelled as 'unmaintained', than a package 
with the name of someone who don't care at all.

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