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

[Anssi Hannula]

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")"


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Anssi Hannula