Re: [arch-dev-public] Website updated- package maintainer changes

On 03/29/2010 01:45 AM, Dan McGee wrote:

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Allan McRae wrote:

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On 29/03/10 08:01, Dan McGee wrote:

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Hey guys,

I just pushed a website update today that improves something everyone has been clamoring for- package maintainers. The quick hits:

* Package maintainership is now by 'pkgbase'. If you "adopt" one package, you become a maintainer for all packages with that same pkgbase (including across all architectures). This also means when a package is converted from arch-specific to arch-independent, you won't have to re-adopt it. * We will never lose package maintainer info if we lose packages and they come back in a later processing of the DB. Eric will be glad to hear this. * Multiple maintainers are supported. See http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/thunderbird/ for an example. All maintainers will get an email when the package is marked out of date (if they are signed up to do so).

With all that said, the concept of package adoption is now not an exclusive affair- multiple people can adopt packages and all be listed as maintainers.

Let me (and the list) know if you have any questions.

Thanks for doing this Dan. These all are really useful improvements to the system. It looks like it is time to do a package adoption push and get rid of some of the old and genuine orphans.

If someone would adopt the thunderbird language packs, that would wipe 36 packages off the orphan list. :) http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=-last_update&arch=&repo=&q=thunderbird-&maintainer=orphan&last_update=&flagged=&limit=50

-Dan

adopted -- Ionut