[arch-dev-public] Archlinux [current] status

[Aaron Griffin]

On 5/9/07, Jason Chu <jason at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:42:12AM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > On 5/9/07, Jason Chu <jason at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 04:54:43PM +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
> > > > Am Mittwoch, 9. Mai 2007 schrieb Jason Chu:
> > > > > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:30:59PM +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
> > > > > > Hi
> > > > > > something is really going wrong at the moment.
> > > > > > People claim for having other interests or not time for doing the
> > > > > > packaging work.
> > > > > > I start here only with [current] first.
> > > > > > Jan quit doing maintenance of important parts of our distro and probably
> > > > > > also of doing quite some update tirades through current.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Let me stress this, from my point of view Jan and me did the most
> > > > > > [current] updates the last weeks, even if we didn't use the software for
> > > > > > our own stuff, correct me if im wrong.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > We have inactive package maintainers, no doubt.
> > > > > > Judd, Dorphell, Aurelien, Gregor, Woody, Arjan
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It's time to cleanup [current].
> > > > > > Orphan all packages of Judd, Dorphell, Aurelien, Gregor
> > > > > > 1 week of time to grab what packages you wanna have.
> > > > > > Keep in mind it's your job then to test and ensure that the package
> > > > > > works! Please one of the enablers do this, or give me the permission to
> > > > > > orphan them.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is it possible to have a step before this one that's not as disruptive?
> > > > > This will create a lot of orphans very quickly.
> > > > >
> > > > > Jason
> > > > Well that way you see quickly who wants to  take packages and which ones need
> > > > maintainers, im sick of browsing judds and dorphells dashboard to find the
> > > > flagged ones, there are also some that are not outdated at all.
> > > >
> > > > greetings
> > > > tpowa
> > >
> > > I was just thinking there might be a few packages that each of the
> > > developers (mostly Judd) wants to hang on to.  If you orphan all of them,
> > > then they'll have to snatch them back up again.
> >
> > They could always ask.  Besides, I don't see any hurt here besides the
> > false pride that comes with single-ownership of a package ("that's MY
> > package").
>
> Alright, I conceed.  Let's do this thing!

Jason, can you take this task on? I want to
a) figure out a solution to the pacman upgrade issue
b) deal with the package cleanup
So I don't have huge amounts of time to spare at the moment.