Am Dienstag, 8. Mai 2007 22:30:59 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: > Hi > something is really going wrong at the moment. > People claim for having other interests or not time for doing the packaging > work. > I start here only with [current] first. > Jan quit doing maintenance of important parts of our distro and probably > also of doing quite some update tirades through current. > > Let me stress this, from my point of view Jan and me did the most [current] > updates the last weeks, even if we didn't use the software for our own > stuff, correct me if im wrong. > > We have inactive package maintainers, no doubt. > Judd, Dorphell, Aurelien, Gregor, Woody, Arjan > > It's time to cleanup [current]. > Orphan all packages of Judd, Dorphell, Aurelien, Gregor > 1 week of time to grab what packages you wanna have. > Keep in mind it's your job then to test and ensure that the package works! > Please one of the enablers do this, or give me the permission to orphan > them. > > After that period, look whats left if noone feels responsable for a package > make a list of possible drops or try to find one on ML who wants to > maintain it. It's better to have 1 maintainer for just 1 package who is > active and knows the package well, then 1 who just cross updates because he > saw the version bump. > > come on guys participate it's the base of our distro! > Without it Arch cannot work. > > greetings > tpowa
Well, I see the point. Perhaps there too much packages in [current] and [extra] for too few devs. (compare: there are less packages in [community] but we have more active TUs than Devs) I don`t see any problem in stripping down [current] and [extra] to only those packages which are really used. E.g. there are some experimntal ones like beryl, several unstable kernels like ck, beyond, mm etc. which will do well in [community]. Perhaps there should be a guideline which package has to be part of the core distribution. For example: if a TU becomes a DEV he often moves all his packages to extra. Esspecially for Arch64 this causes some problems because we TUs wont be able to help by porting those packages. Pierre _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
