> perhaps even throw out packages that are not maintained and nobody feels
like taking over.
I second this but only partially: Packages that don't really need to be
"maintained", like DOS utilities that haven't seen any code updates in 35
years and have proven themselves highly stable and reliable should be left
alone. "If it ain't broke" sort of mentality. We should instead, for those,
have some sort of community contact to help with triaging bug reports and
maybe technical support requests. Not a full maintainer, mind you, as
they'd be responsible for an entire class of unmaintained packages.
Possibly a small team thereof. Any package that falls into this category,
however, needs to have a solid track record for reliability so that the
incoming bug reports will be few, if any at all.
Things that are network-connected, or are more subjected to bitrot over
time like ports of GNU utilities, drop 'em like it's hot, or push them to a
secondary distribution ("Extras CD".)
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On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 6:44 AM Danilo Pecher via Freedos-devel <
freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> I agree. We should start keeping track of who maintains what, and
> perhaps even throw out packages that are not maintained and nobody
> feels like taking over. That could also help to reduce the inflation
> in neccessary installation media size.
>
> On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 at 12:24, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
> <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Am 17.12.2024 um 01:29 schrieb Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel <
> freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>:
> > >
> > > There is no list of projects with or without maintainers.
> > >
> > > But, out of the hundreds of packages that are included with the
> FreeDOS Release only a handful are being actively maintained.
> >
> > Perhaps then we should start maintaining such a list, at least for the
> very core of FreeDOS?
> >
> > For example, who feels currently responsible for the kernel? Who pushes
> out new releases? Who makes sure that bug reports are responded to, so that
> people investing time contacting us do not waste their time?
> >
> > As it is now, while quite a few people contribute to different parts of
> the FreeDOS ecosystem, there seems to be a lack of decision making. And I
> think that this is mainly a result of the programs not having well-defined
> maintainers.
> >
> > To make a start: I feel responsible for FDISK, so would consider myself
> its current "maintainer".
> >
> > The people on such list could be contacted once a year or so to ask if
> they are still willing to contribute...
> >
> > Bernd
> >
> >
> >
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