On 2012-09-05 1:23 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi > > I've just read the "Attitude Adjustment beta announcement" and it's not clear > how packages will work in the future. > > There will be "maintained and unmaintained" packages, so how will maintained > packages will be elected? > Will all packages move in the unmaintained repo waiting for a maintainer? Unmaintained packages will stay where they are. Maintained packages will be moved to trunk or (for bigger less common package groups) different feeds.
> Will every packages need an "external" (not in the openwrt team) maintainer? We will only keep packages in trunk that have a maintainer (either member of the openwrt team or external). > About the unmaintained repo, will it be /dev/null, or a repo where there will > be only "compile test"? Unmaintained packages will not be included in binary builds, and developers will typically not compile-test them. > and if a "maintained or unmaintained" dependency update break a > "unmaintained" package Openwrt team will not do anything. Right. Dealing with the large number of packages pushes a big burden onto our small group of developers. We've decided that we can do a much better job of maintaining the core if we don't have to care about a big repository of packages with potentially only very few users. > It may be a good idea to gather some statistics (opt-in or opt-out) so you > can focus on the right packages > -an uid > -device info (model, rev ...) > -opkg list-installed > -... We will focus on the packages that we care about. If a frequently used package is not among that list, somebody needs to step up and start maintaining it. > Another idea for the unmaintained packages, github and his > https://github.com/blog/843-the-merge-button, this could be time saving > (never use) I agree. This does not have to be done by the core team though. Maybe a group of active users/contributors could organize to maintain something like this. If done properly, we could then include that in the default feeds.conf. - Felix _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
