[arch-dev-public] pkgstats and repo cleanup

[Dan McGee]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Firmicus <Firmicus at gmx.net> wrote:
> Allan McRae a écrit :
>>
>> Firmicus wrote:
>>>
>>> Allan McRae a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> Hi devs,
>>>>
>>>> I have created a table of candidates for removal from the extra repo
>>>> based on <1% usage in the pkgstats results.  I have gone through and flagged
>>>> for keeping packages which are i18n, makedepends, or otherwise needed (in
>>>> pacman testsuite, using on gerolde).  See the list here:
>>>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Extra_Repo_and_Pkgstats
>>>>
>>>> There is probably other categories of packages we should keep (e.g
>>>> drivers) and there are some fonts which might be considered i18n related so
>>>> can you all go through the list a cross out the ones to be kept and giving
>>>> the reason.
>>>>
>>>> In a couple of weeks time I will remove all the orphaned packages
>>>> remaining on that list and contact the maintainers of the rest so they can
>>>> decide what to do with their packages.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Allan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Good work Allan.
>>>
>>> The few packages I maintain in that list I will certainly move to
>>> community.
>>>
>>> But don't forget that we also have those two wiki pages:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Package_Cleanup
>>>
>>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Repo_Cleanup
>>>
>>> I think it would be a good idea to merge the above two pages to the third
>>> one. We should not have 3+ pages devoted to one identical task.
>>>
>>> F
>>
>> I didn't know about those pages.  I will look into merging them at a later
>> time.
>>
>> Allan
>>
>>
>
> I did some preliminary work for you ;)
>
> The page Package_Cleanup is now redirected to
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Repo_Cleanup
>
> I have moved the content of the former to the latter and reorganized it a
> bit.
>
> I also added a link to your user page with a note that it should be merged
> with the table based on pkgstats.
>
> All devs should feel free to edit, comment, etc. Note that you need to have
> sysop rights to edit DeveloperWiki pages.

Why can't users edit this (e.g. leave comments on packages)? This is
why I originally made this page NOT on the developer wiki...

-Dan