On 10/2/07, Andreas Radke <a.radke@arcor.de> wrote:
Am Mon, 1 Oct 2007 17:17:17 -0500 schrieb "Aaron Griffin" <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com>:
== Pending Tasks, Short Term ==
* New Round of Package Cleanup
Let's try and get this "complete" this week. I'd like to get at least 2 or 3 of us together with Eric to go through these packages and start moving them to community or unsupported.
We have an internal list for this here: https://www.archlinux.org/wiki/Repo%20Cleanup/
Please add candidates if you find them.
Eric, when is a good time for you?
I will help out with the cleanup.
We had asked all developers to readopt their packages after the repo shuffle. We have a very bad situation right now! Still 916 packages orphaned. 6 developers listed on the dev website have 0 packages. Some other maintain only a few packages.
Look what is orphaned: apache, bind, cvs, mono, python, freetype1/2, nspr/nss, pango, gimp, mutt, cdrkit, several desktops, bash, bzip2, gcc-libs, kernel26 and many more!
We were talking about our intention to have more than one maintainer per package. But we do not act like that. Having so important packages unmaintained means nobody follows the projects mailing lists. No quick updates, bug fixes, no security fixes...
So get your ass up and adopt packages you want to keep in our distribution!
DEADLINE for adopting packages should be this coming weekend. Then the cleanup will start.
2 all devs: Isn't that more important than telling something about how much alcohol we drink?
Andy, Andy, Andy. Let's not get angry about this. See the thing is as follows: You asked us to do this, and disappeared. If you want people to do things, you can't act all silly like this. In addition (here comes the Big Hat) - the only people who should be mandating things are the "enablers" - we can't have everyone throwing out random mandates for things that were mentioned once and only once. That's how we get to the chaos we're in now. Here's the thing: orphan packages aren't a huge deal. There. I said it. This isn't critical. Nothing is burning, nothing is on fire, so calm down. Now, because Andy has been so lax in keeping up with what I kindly, and nicely asked him to, and responds in this manner, I have to step in here. See, Andy, I figured I could delegate work to you and you would handle this task like a manager should, but I guess it doesn't work that way. -------------------------------------------------- So. To summarize the email above: After the core repo move, we have a lot of orphan packages, and important ones. So, let's readopt them. I am giving everyone until tomorrow night to adopt what packages you _want_ - first come first serve. After that, I will go through all orphans, and determine if they are important. Then, I will post a list of what we need to maintain to this ML, and let people adopt them. On Friday, if they are not adopted, I will assign them as I see fit. ---------------------------------------- Now, please note. I am going to be sending a follow up email here. Andy mentioned that we have "6 developers with 0 packages", and I want to address this because it is something very very critical to us moving forward.