Re: [Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later

2011-12-14 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 10 décembre 2011 à 12:14 +0100, Samuel Verschelde a écrit : 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

Re: [Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later

2011-12-14 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op woensdag 14 december 2011 23:19:40 schreef Michael Scherer: Le samedi 10 décembre 2011 à 12:14 +0100, Samuel Verschelde a écrit : 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

Re: [Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later

2011-12-14 Thread Manuel Hiebel
Le jeudi 15 décembre 2011 à 00:14 +0100, nicolas vigier a écrit : On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, Michael Scherer wrote: So let's try to make a proposal, if there is a list, after how many months should a package be removed from the repository if not maintained ( and by maintained, I do not say

Re: [Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later

2011-12-14 Thread zezinho
Le jeudi 15 décembre 2011 00:28:05, Manuel Hiebel a écrit : And what to do with package that have a maintainer, but the packager does not fix the bugs or is inactive ? :D Just say here : Houston, we've got a problem! ;-)

Re: [Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later

2011-12-14 Thread Sander Lepik
15.12.2011 01:28, Manuel Hiebel kirjutas: And what to do with package that have a maintainer, but the packager does not fix the bugs or is inactive ? :D List them here.. lets make a wall of blame :) -- Sander

Re: [Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later

2011-12-12 Thread Colin Guthrie
'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

Re: [Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later

2011-12-10 Thread Michael Scherer
Le jeudi 08 décembre 2011 à 18:51 +0800, Funda Wang a écrit : 2011/12/8 Samuel Verschelde sto...@laposte.net: His/her work would be the following: - identifiy (with bugsquad's help) the orphan packages that have lots of unresolved bugs or are severely outdated, - do the same for packages

Re: [Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later

2011-12-10 Thread Samuel Verschelde
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

Re: [Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later

2011-12-10 Thread zezinho
Le samedi 10 décembre 2011 12:14:56, Samuel Verschelde a écrit : Le samedi 10 décembre 2011 11:14:38, Michael Scherer a écrit : 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

Re: [Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later

2011-12-10 Thread andre999
Samuel Verschelde a écrit : Le jeudi 8 décembre 2011 11:51:46, Funda Wang a écrit : 2011/12/8 Samuel Verscheldesto...@laposte.net: His/her work would be the following: - identifiy (with bugsquad's help) the orphan packages that have lots of unresolved bugs or are severely outdated, -

Re: [Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later

2011-12-09 Thread Malo
On 08/12/11 10:04, Samuel Verschelde wrote: Hi, I consider the (first phase of) the adoption campaign finished, so here are some stats about it, and an opening for discussion about what to do next. We had 4931 packages without a maintainer, we now have 2043, so I think we can say

[Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later

2011-12-08 Thread Samuel Verschelde
Hi, I consider the (first phase of) the adoption campaign finished, so here are some stats about it, and an opening for discussion about what to do next. We had 4931 packages without a maintainer, we now have 2043, so I think we can say that the campaign was a success in this regard : nearly

Re: [Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later

2011-12-08 Thread Funda Wang
2011/12/8 Samuel Verschelde sto...@laposte.net: His/her work would be the following: - identifiy (with bugsquad's help) the orphan packages that have lots of unresolved bugs or are severely outdated, - do the same for packages that have a maintainer but are in a similar situation, - try to

Re: [Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later

2011-12-08 Thread Kamil Rytarowski
W dniu 08.12.2011 11:04, Samuel Verschelde pisze: Hi, I consider the (first phase of) the adoption campaign finished, so here are some stats about it, and an opening for discussion about what to do next. We had 4931 packages without a maintainer, we now have 2043, so I think we can say that

Re: [Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later

2011-12-08 Thread Samuel Verschelde
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

Re: [Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later

2011-12-08 Thread Samuel Verschelde
Le jeudi 8 décembre 2011 11:51:46, Funda Wang a écrit : 2011/12/8 Samuel Verschelde sto...@laposte.net: His/her work would be the following: - identifiy (with bugsquad's help) the orphan packages that have lots of unresolved bugs or are severely outdated, - do the same for packages that

Re: [Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later

2011-12-08 Thread Samuel Verschelde
Le jeudi 8 décembre 2011 13:14:26, Samuel Verschelde a écrit : Le jeudi 8 décembre 2011 11:51:46, Funda Wang a écrit : 2011/12/8 Samuel Verschelde sto...@laposte.net: His/her work would be the following: - identifiy (with bugsquad's help) the orphan packages that have lots of

Re: [Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later

2011-12-08 Thread Kamil Rytarowski
W dniu 08.12.2011 13:13, Samuel Verschelde pisze: 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

Re: [Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later

2011-12-08 Thread Angelo Naselli
See http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/unmaintained.txt for the list of orphan packages. monodevelop-debugger-gdb taken. monodevelop-boo monodevelop-debugger-mdb According to monodevelop download page[1] those two can be removed. Cheers, Angelo [1] http://monodevelop.com/Download

Re: [Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later

2011-12-08 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op donderdag 08 december 2011 13:16:28 schreef Samuel Verschelde: On second thoughts, the mailing list should not be called nobody but rather orphanage or something that shows to bug reporters that there are packagers behind it. we should call it /dev/null

Re: [Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later

2011-12-08 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op donderdag 08 december 2011 13:13:28 schreef Samuel Verschelde: [...] 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