On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Andrea Scarpino andrea@archlinux.org wrote:

Hi DEVs/TUs, I'm again on the cleanup of orphans packages in the [extra] repository; this time with a small list[1].

The list is based on orphans packages needed by none.

I don't see very important packages there, but chromium, krusader, mc and proftpd which maybe should be kept in [extra]; though they will probably find their maintainers in [community].

As the last time (more than 7 months ago), please cross out the packages you want to keep in [extra]. Adoption is not required, but it would be nice.

If you are a TU you can ask to maintain a package writing its name to the "Candidate to [community]" list[2].

I invite all you maintainers to check the orphans packages on the Arch website, many are maintained packages where the maintainer simply forgot to adopt it.

Thanks

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Repo_Cleanup [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Repo_Cleanup#Candidate_to...

-- Andrea

Added myself as a candidate to maintain chromium, so far, I'm loving it! (tm)

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Andrea Scarpino andrea@archlinux.org wrote:

Hi DEVs/TUs, I'm again on the cleanup of orphans packages in the [extra] repository; this time with a small list[1].

The list is based on orphans packages needed by none.

I don't see very important packages there, but chromium, krusader, mc and proftpd which maybe should be kept in [extra]; though they will probably find their maintainers in [community].

As the last time (more than 7 months ago), please cross out the packages you want to keep in [extra]. Adoption is not required, but it would be nice.

If you are a TU you can ask to maintain a package writing its name to the "Candidate to [community]" list[2].

I invite all you maintainers to check the orphans packages on the Arch website, many are maintained packages where the maintainer simply forgot to adopt it.

Thanks

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Repo_Cleanup [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Repo_Cleanup#Candidate_to...

-- Andrea

I adopted several of them and crossed them out. I wonder if it would be better to simply remove the package from the list once they have a maintainer in order to not clutter the list.

On Wednesday 04 May 2011 01:44:15 Andrea Scarpino wrote:

Hi DEVs/TUs, I'm again on the cleanup of orphans packages in the [extra] repository; this time with a small list[1].

The list is based on orphans packages needed by none.

I don't see very important packages there, but chromium, krusader, mc and proftpd which maybe should be kept in [extra]; though they will probably find their maintainers in [community].

As the last time (more than 7 months ago), please cross out the packages you want to keep in [extra]. Adoption is not required, but it would be nice.

If you are a TU you can ask to maintain a package writing its name to the "Candidate to [community]" list[2].

I invite all you maintainers to check the orphans packages on the Arch website, many are maintained packages where the maintainer simply forgot to adopt it.

Thanks

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Repo_Cleanup [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Repo_Cleanup#Candidate_to _.5Bcommunity.5D

Hi DEVs/TUs, after a week this is the status:

# These will be moved to [community] abcde aria2 dosbox gtk-theme-switch2 icecast mc nickle numlockx tango-icon-theme-extras vbetool vim-a vim-bufexplorer vim-colorsamplerpack vim-doxygentoolkit vim-guicolorscheme vim-minibufexpl vim-omnicppcomplete vim-project vim-taglist vim-vcscommand

# These will be moved to AUR bladeenc bs cscope ettercap-gtk gnupod gptfdisk gqmpeg kmldonkey kmplayer krusader libbtcl monotone nbsmtp nppangband perl-text-csv python-gtkglext speedcrunch xchat-gnome

If there are no objections I'll move all them tomorrow.