2011/11/28 Bruno Cornec <[email protected]> > Hello, > > I received recently a mail from Samuel Verschelde asking me to look > again at the list of un-maintained packages in mageia (either > http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/unmaintained.txt or by mgarepo maintdb > get | grep nobody). Thanks for the reminder ! > > I was really surprised of what I found, and I'm pretty sure some people > have not registered themselves as package maintainer correctly. I can't > believe we could have a working distribution without people in charge > of: > attr > basesystem > bind > bison > busybox > cpio > curl > cvs > docbook-* > dosfstools > findutils > flex > gdb > ghostscript > grub > gzip > initscripts > inn > keychain > less > lilo > locales > logrotate > lzma > mageia-release > man > man-pages > mkinitrd > mt-st > mtools > ncurses > netcat-traditional > ntp > openjade > openssl > openvpn > pam > parted > passwd > procmail > sane > sgml-common > shorewall > sqlite > sudo > sympa > sysstat > tcp_wrappers > tcpdump > tcsh > termcap > traceroute > udev > util-linux-ng > xinetd > xmodmap > (And this is really a list of what looks to me mandatory, I'm sure each > here will make its own, with differences). > > As much as I'm willing to maintain packages, I don't think I'm the > most qualified to take some of these. However, a distro without them > maintained has no future :-( > > So I guess there is something wrong here. Or are we so few that nobody > want to take these ? > > I'm willing to contribute, already "own" 29 pkgs (but some of these > because I thought I'd rather take them than leave unmaintained, even if > surprised) but don't have that much time, nor expertise to add the full > list ! > > Any taker ? > Greetings, > Bruno. > -- > Open Source & Linux Profession Lead EMEA http://opensource.hp.com > Open Source Solutions Initiative Chief Technologist http://hpintelco.net > FLOSS projects: http://mondorescue.org http://project-builder.org > Musique ancienne? http://www.musique-ancienne.org http://www.medieval.org >
I can maintain passwd
