[Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op zaterdag 24 september 2011 09:46:28 schreef Florian Hubold:
> Am 23.09.2011 23:03, schrieb 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 !
> > 
> > amarok: mikala 14, fwang 12, ahmad 4, dmorgan 2
> > autoconf: blino 1
> > autoconf2.1: blino 2
> > bash-completion: ahmad 6, blino 2
> > cmake: ahmad 14, dmorgan 7, tv 2, mikala 2, fwang 2, kharec 1
> > firefox: tv 36, dmorgan 34, fwang 17, ahmad 10, erwan 5, rda 2, ennael 2,
> > ... mozilla-thunderbird: fwang 40, ahmad 22, dmorgan 11, doktor5000 2,
> > ... task-e17: ennael 4
> 
> Those are on my list, Anssi still needs to grab them on my behalf.
> Maybe not found the time to to it yet ;)

no offense, and i'm not complaining, but aren't you taking on a bit too much?