[arch-dev-public] Website updated- package maintainer changes

[Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227)]

On 03/29/10 at 09:41am, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 29/03/10 08:58, Ionut Biru wrote:
> >On 03/29/2010 01:45 AM, Dan McGee wrote:
> >>On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> >>>On 29/03/10 08:01, Dan McGee wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>Hey guys,
> >>>>
> >>>>I just pushed a website update today that improves something everyone
> >>>>has been clamoring for- package maintainers. The quick hits:
> >>>>
> >>>>* Package maintainership is now by 'pkgbase'. If you "adopt" one
> >>>>package, you become a maintainer for all packages with that same
> >>>>pkgbase (including across all architectures). This also means when a
> >>>>package is converted from arch-specific to arch-independent, you won't
> >>>>have to re-adopt it.
> >>>>* We will never lose package maintainer info if we lose packages and
> >>>>they come back in a later processing of the DB. Eric will be glad to
> >>>>hear this.
> >>>>* Multiple maintainers are supported. See
> >>>>http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/thunderbird/ for an
> >>>>example. All maintainers will get an email when the package is marked
> >>>>out of date (if they are signed up to do so).
> >>>>
> >>>>With all that said, the concept of package adoption is now not an
> >>>>exclusive affair- multiple people can adopt packages and all be listed
> >>>>as maintainers.
> >>>>
> >>>>Let me (and the list) know if you have any questions.
> >>>
> >>>Thanks for doing this Dan. These all are really useful improvements
> >>>to the
> >>>system. It looks like it is time to do a package adoption push and
> >>>get rid
> >>>of some of the old and genuine orphans.
> >>
> >>If someone would adopt the thunderbird language packs, that would wipe
> >>36 packages off the orphan list. :)
> >>http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=-last_update&arch=&repo=&q=thunderbird-&maintainer=orphan&last_update=&flagged=&limit=50
> >>
> >>
> >>-Dan
> >
> >adopted
> 
> 36 down,  1277 to go...
> 
> 
> 
Yay! I love it! I'll give everyone a few days before I start fixating
on package cleanup again ;)
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