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

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le samedi 10 décembre 2011 11:14:38, Michael Scherer a écrit :
> Le jeudi 08 décembre 2011 à 18:51 +0800, Funda Wang a écrit :
> > I would suggest that registering nobody as a mailing list, so that
> > every interested packagers could join to help.
> 
> No.
> 
> For the reasons already highlighted several time, this would not work.
> That's the situation at mandriva, and we know well the problem it cause
> ( aka, obscure communication, no one really in charge of a rpm, so not
> one feeling responsible for bugs or anything ).
> 
> Either a package is maintained and should be marked as such, or it is
> not, and should be marked as such, with a unfortunate fate for him
> sooner or later.
> 
> The goal is not to align lots of unmaintained packages, but to have a
> maintained distribution. People have been complaining for quality since
> a lot of time, and that's the only way to have it.
> If not, this end like Mandriva, people see and fill bugs, they are not
> fixed, and no one care. This greatly undermine the confidence in the
> distribution in the long run, and so while having maintainer is not a
> magic solution, this is a important step in the right direction.
> 
> A free-for-all pool is just a mess.

You're explaining why having orphan packages is bad and it's hard to disagree, 
but I fail to see why such a mailing list for people who are ready to devote 
some time to orphan packages would make things worse. It's not because it's 
not the ideal solution that it's bad, is it?

Samuel