[Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign

[Samuel Verschelde]

The package adoption campaign is still active and there's still a lot of 
unmaintained packages (3517 right now).

5115 packages are maintained, including:
- 2539 perl packages
- 2576 other packages

The next objective is still to have more non-perl maintained packages than 
unmaintained packages, which is more or less equivalent to reducing the number 
of unmaintained packages under 3000.

Here are 2 tools to help in this task:

First tool : a list of important packages that are unmaintained. This list is 
not exhaustive, it's just a choice of packages. I'll try to give such a list 
regularly. The list is at the end of this mail.

Second tool : the list of committers, with the number of commits (based on the 
cauldron branch), for each unmaintained package. The list is updated manually, 
I'll try to update it regularly but if someone volunteers to produce it 
automatically, it would be appreciated. Alien has a script to get the number 
of commits per package and per committer, you can ask him. Then you must filter 
it to keep only unmaintained packages.

The list is there: 
http://stormi.lautre.net/fichiers/mageia/unmaintained-per-committers.txt

Of course, there's no obligation to become maintainer of a package when you 
committed changes to it in the past, and there's nothing preventing someone 
with 0 or few commits to a package to maintain it if those who have more 
commits don't want to.

Now a list of unmaintained packages of interest, with their committers. Let's 
try to shrink this list !

acpid: tv 12, kharec 4, pterjan 3, ennael 2, dmorgan 1
amarok: mikala 14, fwang 12, ahmad 4, dmorgan 2
aspell-*
autoconf: blino 1
autoconf2.1: blino 2
avahi: dmorgan 10, pterjan 5, mikala 2, wally 1, rtp 1, misc 1
banshee: ahmad 10, wally 7, ennael 4, tv 3, pterjan 3, fwang 2, dmorgan 2, 
boklm 1
basesystem: tv 5, pterjan 3, dmorgan 2, tmb 1, rtp 1, blino 1
bash-completion: ahmad 6, blino 2
bind: guillomovitch 45, misc 9, mikala 5, pterjan 4, ennael 2, cjw 2, ...
binutils: rtp 4, pterjan 1, blino 1
bootsplash: blino 3, dmorgan 2, ahmad 2, pterjan 1
bzip2: eandry 4, pterjan 2, blino 1
cairo: fwang 2, blino 2, rtp 1, dmorgan 1, ahmad 1
chkconfig: tv 16, tmb 3, kharec 1
chromium-browser-beta: tv 145, fwang 1
chromium-browser-stable: tv 116, dmorgan 6, fwang 2
chromium-browser-unstable: tv 168, fwang 1
clamav: dlucio 6, tv 3, kharec 3, ennael 2, ahmad 2, stormi 1, spuhler 1
cmake: ahmad 14, dmorgan 7, tv 2, mikala 2, fwang 2, kharec 1
coreutils: tv 11, tmb 1
cpio: blino 1
cups: dmorgan 11, tv 6, fwang 1, blino 1, ahmad 1
curl: pterjan 7, tv 6, dams 6, kharec 5, fwang 1, blino 1
dash: tv 5, blino 1
dbus: tv 8, dmorgan 5, cjw 4, misc 2, tmb 1, rtp 1, blino 1
desktop-common-data: ennael 11, dmorgan 9, pterjan 2, blino 2, ...
dev86: tv 14, pterjan 4, ahmad 3, tmb 1
dmidecode: tv 6, blino 2
drak3d: dmorgan 3, ennael 1
drakcowsay: mikala 1, boklm 1
drakguard: ennael 7, dmorgan 5
draklive: blino 9
draklive-install: blino 6, dmorgan 5, pterjan 1
drakx-installer-advertising: ennael 21, tv 2
drakx-net: ennael 12, dmorgan 6, tv 3
empathy: fwang 17, dams 17, dmorgan 15, wally 9, ahmad 6, eandry 2, ...
evolution: fwang 18, dmorgan 16, dams 4, pterjan 3, wally 1, ahmad 1
ffmpeg: fwang 18, cjw 5, pterjan 3, colin 3, ahmad 2, dmorgan 1
findutils: tv 5, tmb 1
firefox: tv 36, dmorgan 34, fwang 17, ahmad 10, erwan 5, rda 2, ennael 2, ...
gcc: tmb 3, rtp 3, fwang 1
glib2.0: fwang 14, ahmad 10, dmorgan 8, tv 6, cjw 3, blino 3, pterjan 2, ...
glibc: misc 8, rtp 5, blino 3, tv 1, tmb 1, dmorgan 1
gnome-*
grub: misc 2, tmb 1
gtk+3.0: fwang 15, dmorgan 13, wally 4, cjw 4, ahmad 4, saispo 1
gzip: tmb 1
hunspell*
hyphen*
ipset: tmb 11, pterjan 3
iptables: blino 4, tmb 2, ahmad 1
iptraf: ennael 4
iputils: pterjan 2, misc 2, blino 1
iurt: pterjan 11, blino 10, boklm 2
kernel-vserver: tmb 18, bertl 13
kmplayer: ahmad 1
konversation: mikala 3, ahmad 2
lib*
locales: misc 4, blino 3, dmorgan 1, boklm 1
logrotate: misc 6, ahmad 4, tmb 1
mageia-gfxboot-theme: ennael 28, dmorgan 6, tmb 2, schultz 2, ahmad 2
mageia-release: ennael 15, tmb 9, boklm 5, blino 2, tv 1, rda 1
mageia-theme: schultz 21, ennael 19, dmorgan 19, tmb 4, mikala 4, pterjan 3, 
misc 3, dams 3, ahmad 3
man: blino 1, ahmad 1
man-pages: blino 2, ahmad 2
mdadm: tmb 3
mgaonline: tv 13, tmb 6, ennael 6, dmorgan 4, ze 2, ahmad 2, misc 1
mozilla-thunderbird: fwang 40, ahmad 22, dmorgan 11, doktor5000 2, ...
mplayer: fwang 5, blino 3, ahmad 3, cjw 1
mysql: guillomovitch 21, dmorgan 17, ahmad 12, mikala 9, alien 3, rtp 1
mysql-workbench: dmorgan 26, mikala 14, ahmad 5, fwang 4, spuhler 2, dlucio 2
nagios: guillomovitch 13, ennael 2, misc 1, dmorgan 1
nano: wally 15
networkmanager: mikala 21, dmorgan 11, blino 4, cjw 1
null: pterjan 22, boklm 20, dmorgan 10, tmb 7, misc 1, blino 1
openssh: pterjan 8, blino 4, saispo 2, misc 1, kharec 1
openssl: pterjan 6, blino 3, rtp 1, fwang 1
pam: blino 4, pterjan 1, colin 1
php-*
python-*
radeon-firmware: tmb 11
radeontool: tv 3, pterjan 1
ruby-*rubygem-passenger: dmorgan 1, dams 1
shorewall: tv 15, ahmad 15, ennael 2, tmb 1, pterjan 1
speedtouch-firmware: ahmad 2
speedtouch-firmware-extractor: ennael 1, ahmad 1
subversion: tv 5, ahmad 5, dmorgan 2, blino 2, pterjan 1, mikala 1, jquelin 1, 
fwang 1
sudo: tv 7, boklm 4, blino 3, rtp 1, pterjan 1, dmorgan 1
syslinux: erwan 10, boklm 4, pterjan 1
sysvinit: tmb 1, rtp 1
task-c-devel: tv 1, ennael 1
task-c++-devel: tv 1, ennael 1
task-e17: ennael 4
task-lamp: dmorgan 3, tv 1, philippem 1, misc 1
task-nagios: ennael 1
task-printing-scanning: tv 2, ennael 2, ahmad 2
task-scanning: tv 1, ennael 1
task-x11: ahmad 3, dmorgan 2, ennael 1
task-xfce: ahmad 3, ennael 2, philippem 1
uClibc: rtp 1, blino 1
unzip: blino 2
util-linux: eugeni 1
util-linux-ng: tmb 1
webkit: dmorgan 18, fwang 17, pterjan 2, wally 1, kharec 1, ennael 1
webmin: ennael 20, pterjan 1
wine: ahmad 70, fwang 3, dmorgan 1, anssi 1
xen: tv 4, tmb 4, fwang 2, saispo 1
xorg-x11: mikala 2, tv 1, dmorgan 1, blino 1
xulrunner: tv 43, dmorgan 25, fwang 13, ahmad 11, blino 4, erwan 3, ...

Best regards

Samuel