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

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op vrijdag 14 januari 2011 03:56:28 schreef Thomas Spuhler:
> On Thursday, January 13, 2011 12:07:43 pm Colin Guthrie wrote:
> > '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
> 
> I wonder if all packages that have a home in Mandriva will have a
> maintainer in Mageia.

i don't think this 'll be a problem.

Mandriva is planning on reducing packages from almost 14000 to 5000 ...

We just need more packagers and the problem goes away :-)