On Jan 4, 2008 8:10 PM, Eric Belanger <belanger@astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Ronald van Haren wrote:
Hi all!
I just took a look at the orphaned packages in community. I must say, they are quite a few (68, I added the full list at the end of this mail).
If any of these belong to you and you did forget to adopt it after uploading, please do so now. If you did upload one of these and lost interest in it, please move it either to unsupported or post it in this thread so someone else can adopt it.
In about a week time I will post the remaining list of orphaned packages at that time, so anyone interested (or needed as a dep) can adopt one of those. The rest I will move to unsupported a week or so after that. If you think the time schedule I mentioned is too short, please let me know so I can change it.
Best regards,
Ronald
A few comments:
-Before moving a package to unsupported, make sure it is not a depends or makedepends of another community packages. Several packages in your list fall in this category.
Yes, I was planning to do so. Nothing will happen with these packages after 1 week adoption time for the uploader, 1 week adoption time for anyone else, after which I will create a list of things which cannot be removed because of makedepends and depends, and a list of removal candidates. Once I have published these lists I was planning to give another week to object on the removal candidates (and the other list) so the chance of mistakes is as small as possible.
-Keep gpsdrive in community. It's Damir's (a dev) package. He hasn't adopted it yet.
-About the e17 stuff, a forum user (reverie, I think) used to have a popular e17-cvs personal repo. I don't know if he's still maintaining it but, if he's interested in becoming a TU and you want to sponsor and vote him in, he could move his e17-cvs package in community to replace the orphaned e17 snapshots.
Okay, If no active TU wants to take those in the coming weeks I will see if the repo you mentioned is still active and of high quality and contact
Noted. I have put his name behind it on my own list so it will remain. I will contact him if he has not adopted it in a couple of weeks. the maintainer if so. Ronald