[Mageia-dev] PLEASE READ. Package adoption campaign: status report (mine, and yours)

[Donald Stewart]

On 29 September 2011 15:57, Samuel Verschelde <stormi at laposte.net> wrote:
> Please every packager read this mail, there's a call for feedback.
>
> An objective has been reached: there are more maintained non-perl
> packages than unmaintained packages !
> - unmaintained: 2969
> - maintained (non-perl): 3169
> - maintained (perl): 2552
>
> We are still far from a totally maintained distro, so the next objectives are:
> - find maintainers for core packages.
> - reduce the number of unmaintained packages to 2000
>
> Right now, I need your feedback, from each packager individually, with an
> answer to the following questions:
>
> - did you grab all the packages you want and can maintain already ?
> (not a rhetorical question, this will help to know if there's still room for
> improvement or if the current campaign has reached a limit). If the answer
> is no, I would be very grateful if you could update your maintainer status
> before next packager meeting.
>
> - are there some packages you would have wanted to help to maintain within
> a group of maintainers, but for which you are not ready to put your name
> alone ? Can you name a few examples ?
>
> - do you have comments about the package adoption campaign, or suggestions ?
>
>
> Now, various tools:
> - flat list, automatically updated: http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/unmaintained.txt
> - same list, manually updated a few minutes ago, with the number of commits
> per packager for each unmaintained package:
> http://stormi.lautre.net/fichiers/mageia/unmaintained-per-committers.txt
> - (coming soon, from you if you want, or me later) a script that gives you the
> list of unmaintained packages that are installed on your system
>
> Best regards
>
> Samuel Verschelde
>

I can take, well mikala can take hugin, libpano13 and
mageia-gfxboot-theme for me unless anyone else wants them and if its
ok with mikala.

Schultz.