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

Florian Hubold doktor5000 at arcor.de
Tue Oct 4 18:43:02 CEST 2011


Am 04.10.2011 17:54, schrieb Samuel Verschelde:
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> Le mardi 4 octobre 2011 17:46:24, Juergen Harms a écrit :
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> > On 09/16/2011 01:29 PM, philippe makowski wrote:
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> > > You may know it or not, many packages have no maintainer.
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> > > isn't time to set up teams ?
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> > I did not keep the original message - what has happened in the meantime?
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> >
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> > - has the goal concerning the number of maintainers been reached?
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> The actual Goal is 0 unmaintained packages. We managed to drop it from 
> approximatively 5000 to 2900, not bad but not enough yet.
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>
> > - is CERBERUS still on a thick chain of tungsten (I hope!)?
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> Yes, this is the kind of solution that would happen only when everything else 
> has been tried, I think.
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>
> > - what about the list of packages and their state of maintenance?
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> > - is there any follow-up?
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> You'll find everything in the mageia-dev mailing list archives, I post 
> regular reports.
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> >
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> > This issue is essential for the future of Mageia - Mageia must have a
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> > list of maintained packages that compares favourably to its competitor
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> > distros. I just saw a recent comment to bug 278: " ... drakx-net does
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> > not have a maintainer ..." - drakx food for Cerberos??? I think the idea
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> > to shout for new maintainers was excellent, and should be iterated. How
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> > about leaning on Mageia users that have competence, but are - so far -
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> > not actively involved? Magiea is a community distro!
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>
> Yes, the ultimate solution is to have more and more contributers, of course, 
> we're already doing it with the mentoring program, but if you have ideas that 
> you can apply to find more, please do :)
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> >
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> > Could there be more information for such techy-newbies to motivate them,
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> > help them to jump down from the fence? Tell them what effort, what
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> > competence, what responsibility is implied by signing up? That is a
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> > long-term initiative! Nobody will reasonable start and immediately pick
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> > up tons of packages, I started with 2 (well, one of them is a set of
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> > packages). But only once I feel safe with that initial commitment I
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> > could consider taking more (which means a couple of months from now).
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> Yes, that's reasonable. The new wiki should be up soon, that kind of document 
> will find its place there.
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> >
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> > I realize, Mageia is doing exceedingly well, and there is no need to
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> > dramatize the situation - but it is not me who invented Cerberos ... And
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> > the people who did Mageia 1 should have their hands free for doing
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> > Mageia 2 rather than polishing up old stuff.
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>
> I don't understand this last sentence. Do you mean we shouldn't maintain 
> Mageia 1? I think this is not what you mean, but then I don't understand.
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I think he means the developers should have their hands free for working on
cauldron / Mageia 2 and somebody else should do the "polishing" which seems
to mean bugfixing and security updates for the released distro, IIUC.
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>
> Best regards
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>
> Samuel Verschelde
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