Le jeudi 8 décembre 2011 12:33:28, Kamil Rytarowski a écrit : > Hello, I just inform that I was collecting the data for this action, the > stats are here http://kamil.mageia.org.pl/MageiaStats/ it says about the > daily ration of the maintained and the unmaintained packages + how many > full-packagers maintain at least a single package. >
Thanks, those stats are cool :) > Before we start to do that, do you remember about these words: > Currently the data about ownership of packages is tracked in > http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/maintdb.txt and umaintined packages are > listed in http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/unmaintained.txt. This will > be better integrated and managed at a later point, and we will have a > grace period for unmaintained packages. After the grace period, packages > without a maintainer will be reviewed and any packages without a > maintainer will be nominated for deletion. > > source https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packaging_guidelines > > I look into many really abandoned packages, without any interest among > the packagers, and for some of them it's even quite hard to find any > on-line resource.. For example cpuinfo, it's a /proc/* parser for CPU > related data. It's 2-3 years old (so what about the new hardware?!), > even the author of the software isn't responding to e-mail to just point > a working URL for his software. > This example is not really about the package having no maintainer, but rather for it being dead upstream, which often leads to removal of the distribution unless a packager becomes the de-facto upstream and has time, willingness and knowledge to patch it when needed (works also if it's being maintained in other distributions). Samuel
