On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:17:58 +0000 "Robin H. Johnson" <[email protected]> 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 ;-). Count me in then. What's the "official" way of joining these days ?
