'Twas brillig, and Samuel Verschelde at 10/12/11 11:14 did gyre and gimble: > Le samedi 10 décembre 2011 11:14:38, Michael Scherer a écrit : >> Le jeudi 08 décembre 2011 à 18:51 +0800, Funda Wang a écrit : >>> I would suggest that registering nobody as a mailing list, so that >>> every interested packagers could join to help. >> >> No. >> >> For the reasons already highlighted several time, this would not work. >> That's the situation at mandriva, and we know well the problem it cause >> ( aka, obscure communication, no one really in charge of a rpm, so not >> one feeling responsible for bugs or anything ). >> >> Either a package is maintained and should be marked as such, or it is >> not, and should be marked as such, with a unfortunate fate for him >> sooner or later. >> >> The goal is not to align lots of unmaintained packages, but to have a >> maintained distribution. People have been complaining for quality since >> a lot of time, and that's the only way to have it. >> If not, this end like Mandriva, people see and fill bugs, they are not >> fixed, and no one care. This greatly undermine the confidence in the >> distribution in the long run, and so while having maintainer is not a >> magic solution, this is a important step in the right direction. >> >> A free-for-all pool is just a mess. > > You're explaining why having orphan packages is bad and it's hard to > disagree, > but I fail to see why such a mailing list for people who are ready to devote > some time to orphan packages would make things worse. It's not because it's > not the ideal solution that it's bad, is it?
I understand Misc's point, but when there cannot be a perfect solution that works, then a least bad one will do. While it's been said lots of times by Misc that it's a bad situation, until someone comes up with a better practical approach I don't think a mailing list will may anything worse and may help when people are idling and looking for tasks. So I'm in favour of such a mailing list. Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
