[Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign

Florian Hubold doktor5000 at arcor.de
Sat Sep 24 09:46:28 CEST 2011


Am 23.09.2011 23:03, schrieb Samuel Verschelde:
> The package adoption campaign is still active and there's still a lot of
> unmaintained packages (3517 right now).
>
> 5115 packages are maintained, including:
> - 2539 perl packages
> - 2576 other packages
>
> The next objective is still to have more non-perl maintained packages than
> unmaintained packages, which is more or less equivalent to reducing the number
> of unmaintained packages under 3000.
>
> Here are 2 tools to help in this task:
>
> First tool : a list of important packages that are unmaintained. This list is
> not exhaustive, it's just a choice of packages. I'll try to give such a list
> regularly. The list is at the end of this mail.
>
> Second tool : the list of committers, with the number of commits (based on the
> cauldron branch), for each unmaintained package. The list is updated manually,
> I'll try to update it regularly but if someone volunteers to produce it
> automatically, it would be appreciated. Alien has a script to get the number
> of commits per package and per committer, you can ask him. Then you must filter
> it to keep only unmaintained packages.
>
> The list is there:
> http://stormi.lautre.net/fichiers/mageia/unmaintained-per-committers.txt
>
> Of course, there's no obligation to become maintainer of a package when you
> committed changes to it in the past, and there's nothing preventing someone
> with 0 or few commits to a package to maintain it if those who have more
> commits don't want to.
>
> Now a list of unmaintained packages of interest, with their committers. Let's
> try to shrink this list !
>
> amarok: mikala 14, fwang 12, ahmad 4, dmorgan 2
> autoconf: blino 1
> autoconf2.1: blino 2
> bash-completion: ahmad 6, blino 2
> cmake: ahmad 14, dmorgan 7, tv 2, mikala 2, fwang 2, kharec 1
> firefox: tv 36, dmorgan 34, fwang 17, ahmad 10, erwan 5, rda 2, ennael 2, ...
> mozilla-thunderbird: fwang 40, ahmad 22, dmorgan 11, doktor5000 2, ...
> task-e17: ennael 4
Those are on my list, Anssi still needs to grab them on my behalf.
Maybe not found the time to to it yet ;)


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