[Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le jeudi 8 décembre 2011 13:14:26, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
> Le jeudi 8 décembre 2011 11:51:46, Funda Wang a écrit :
> > 2011/12/8 Samuel Verschelde <stormi at laposte.net>:
> > > His/her work would be the following:
> > > - identifiy (with bugsquad's help) the orphan packages that have lots
> > > of unresolved bugs or are severely outdated,
> > > - do the same for packages that have a maintainer but are in a similar
> > > situation,
> > > - try to find packagers or apprentices to take care of them. Not
> > > necessarily make them become maintainer, but at least solve users bugs.
> > > - try to find maintainers for orphan packages.
> > 
> > I would suggest that registering nobody as a mailing list, so that
> > every interested packagers could join to help.
> 
> If forgot about this idea, and support it without hesitation.
> 

On second thoughts, the mailing list should not be called "nobody" but rather 
"orphanage" or something that shows to bug reporters that there are packagers 
behind it.

Samuel