On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robb...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Over the years, the base-system package herd has grown in size. Today > it comprises 320 packages, of which 61 of those have more than one > maintainer. The packages with more than one maintainer I'm only > concerned about if the other maintainer is also very busy or not > available. > > 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 ;-). > This...kinda touches on a side issue. I've been a bit waylaid by RL issues during my quest to become a developer myself, and both of my prospective mentors had to step aside for the same reason before the process could finish. I'm a little slow on the quizzes and some recent changes in gentoo invalidated some of my answers, so part of it is my fault for falling behind. But I was kinda wondering, is there anything that can be done to beef up the manpower? Is there any need to? > > 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 > > -- > Robin Hugh Johnson > Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Trustee & Treasurer > E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org > GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85 > GnuPG FP : 7D0B3CEB E9B85B1F 825BCECF EE05E6F6 A48F6136 >
