On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:17:58 +0000 "Robin H. Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Some of these packages are very niche, and while they continue to > work, they could use a bit more attention than they get presently > (you might only hear about them when they break and never when they > work). > > They are generally NOT broken and in need of tree-cleaning, but are > just lacking forward momentum (not a few bugs are reasonable upstream > bugs or feature improvements). Many were once shiny and had lots of > people that cared, but that dwindled as they become mundane and just > expected to work. > > General increase in the number of developers in base-system would not > be a bad outcome from this email either ;-). I have some (both day job and personal) interest in keeping most of the packages on that list working and moving forward, and would not be opposed to joining base-system to help out (if you will have me). As it is, I have been helping out with openssh X509 support for awhile now. > > Some of this is from stuff I know needs eyeballs, and others are where > the package seems to have more than a few old bugs open. > > Packages in need of review & tweaks or just more eyeballs > ---------------------------------------------------------- > app-admin/sudo (upstream?) > app-admin/sysklogd- (upstream?) > app-shells/bash (upstream?) > dev-util/strace (upstream?) > net-dialup/ppp > net-firewall/iptables > net-fs/nfs-utils (upstream?) > net-misc/dhcpcd (upstream?) > net-misc/dhcp (upstream?) > net-misc/ntp (upstream?) > net-misc/openssh > net-nds/rpcbind > sys-apps/baselayout > sys-apps/coreutils (upstream?) > sys-apps/kbd (upstream?) > sys-block/aoetools > sys-block/iscsitarget > sys-block/open-iscsi > sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools > sys-block/vblade > sys-fs/lvm2 (mostly in regards to genkernel interaction) > sys-fs/multipath-tools > sys-fs/quota >
