Re: potentially unmaintained packages

2010-04-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 08:38:52PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: seriously? I don't think I ever said the list was all inclusive. And in my original reply I only asked some questions related to packages being considered potentially unmaintained. Is there a secret definition of potentially

Re: potentially unmaintained packages

2010-04-14 Thread Felix Kaechele
Hi Michael, On 14.04.2010 09:19, Michael Schwendt wrote: Why would it need to be rebuilt manually? You don't need to. If a package is working perfectly fine and no update is available there's no need to rebuild. Hey, this pkg hasn't been built, even in rawhide, in a while, maybe you should

Re: potentially unmaintained packages

2010-04-14 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:20:05 +0200, Felix wrote: Hey, this pkg hasn't been built, even in rawhide, in a while, maybe you should 1. check that out and 2. if the pkg is dead or unmaintained consider retiring it. It's stable, works, and is still being used by dependencies. Would I

Re: potentially unmaintained packages

2010-04-14 Thread Seth Vidal
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:03:55 -0400 (EDT), Seth wrote: Hi, I worked on a script back in January which produced a list of packages that needed to be looked at. The reason was that the pkg had not been built by koji into dist-rawhide by a

Re: potentially unmaintained packages

2010-04-14 Thread Jon Ciesla
On 04/14/2010 05:20 AM, Felix Kaechele wrote: Hi Michael, On 14.04.2010 09:19, Michael Schwendt wrote: Why would it need to be rebuilt manually? You don't need to. If a package is working perfectly fine and no update is available there's no need to rebuild. Hey, this pkg hasn't been

Re: potentially unmaintained packages

2010-04-14 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 05:03:55PM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: Hi, Hey, this pkg hasn't been built, even in rawhide, in a while, maybe you should 1. check that out and 2. if the pkg is dead or unmaintained consider retiring it. The junction with bug information is also interesting. I think

Re: potentially unmaintained packages

2010-04-14 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:38:03AM +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: Am Dienstag, den 13.04.2010, 17:03 -0400 schrieb Seth Vidal: http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/potentially-unmaintained/2010-04-13/ I see packages_by_user, pkgs_with_bugs and everything. What I would like to see is

Re: potentially unmaintained packages

2010-04-14 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
TK == Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com writes: TK Querying bugzilla is a comparatively expensive process so it's TK probably something we need to do by syncing the count of bugs into TK the db via a cron job. Any takers? I could probably whip something up. - J -- devel mailing list

Re: potentially unmaintained packages

2010-04-14 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Jon Ciesla l...@jcomserv.net wrote: I agree, and thought Seth made his point well.  I typically consider the set of things in Fedora I need to worry about to be the set of bugs assigned to me, plus the ones I've files, plus any FTFFS or broken deps I'm aware

Re: potentially unmaintained packages

2010-04-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 09:19 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:03:55 -0400 (EDT), Seth wrote: Hi, I worked on a script back in January which produced a list of packages that needed to be looked at. The reason was that the pkg had not been built by koji into

Re: potentially unmaintained packages

2010-04-14 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:01:01 -0700, Adam wrote: It seems to me that Seth quite carefully wrote his email specifically to forestall replies of this kind. Apparently it wasn't enough... Of course not. The subject says potentially unmaintained packages. The message makes a fuss about it, even

Re: potentially unmaintained packages

2010-04-14 Thread Seth Vidal
packages. The message makes a fuss about it, even mentions scenarios like retiring packages. What it doesn't comment on is that despite missing rebuilds, a package may still be maintained both in Fedora and upstream. It doesn't mention other potentially unmaintained packages which are missing

potentially unmaintained packages

2010-04-13 Thread Seth Vidal
Hi, I worked on a script back in January which produced a list of packages that needed to be looked at. The reason was that the pkg had not been built by koji into dist-rawhide by a non-automated process in more than 6 months. This list is NOT to shame or embarass anyone. It is only to say: