[arch-dev-public] SR 2007-09-24 * Orphan Packages / Cleanup

[Aaron Griffin]

On 9/25/07, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/25/07, Eric Belanger <belanger at astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Damir Perisa wrote:
> >
> > > Monday 24 September 2007, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > > | * Orphan Packages
> > > |
> > > | This is another one Andy brought up. We have A LOT of orphan
> > > | packages. We need someone to evaluate all of these orphans, to see
> > > | if we should 1) still support them or move them "down" to
> > > | community/unsupported 2) get someone to maintain them.
> > > |
> > > | Seeing as Andy is concerned with this, could you take the reins
> > > | here? Collaborating with Eric on the package cleanup is probably a
> > > | good thing too.
> > >
> > > @ Andy, Eric:
> > >
> > > I'm planning to do some cleanup on my pkgs and also take some orphans
> > > maybe in the next 10 days. I would like to be informed if you plan to
> > > do something on the subject... maybe i can give a hand or another,
> > > since i'm doing it anyway :)
> > >
> > > - D
> > >
> >
> > In the repo cleanup, I'll first focus on the orphans packages as I guess a
> > lot of the old/obsolete stuff is probably there. If you see possible
> > candidates for removal while you browse the orphans list, add them to the
> > repo cleanup list in the dev wiki. I've started to glance at the current
> > orphans but I will probably do more later this week.
>
> Any reason we aren't using the package cleanup list in the public
> wiki? This doesn't seem like something we should or need to hide from
> the user base. In addition, the history feature of a real wiki is much
> more relevant and useful for this kind of thing.

Eric recommended an internal cleanup right now for _technical_ issues.
Packages that are incompatible with different architectures, packages
which don't build anymore, etc etc

I mean, I guess we could reuse the wiki for this, but it's really not
something that's opinion based.

I'm pretty neutral on the issue. If someone feels strongly about it,
let me know.