On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 19:24 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2009.05.14 01:32, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > > Hello, > > > [snip] > > > Project maintainer-wanted > > ========================= > > > > Abstract: > > There are currently quite some package requests (over 3000) > > languishing > > on bugzilla waiting for a developer or team to get interested and > > package it in the official gentoo-x86 portage tree. However in quite > > some cases that might not happen for quite a while even with very > > popular packages desired by users. The purpose of the > > maintainer-wanted > > project is to get as many of such packages to the official tree as > > possible as a stopgap solution. > > > [snip] > > > > Discuss! :) > > > > Mart Raudsepp > > Gentoo Developer > > Mail: l...@gentoo.org > > Weblog: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/leio > > > > Mart, > > I'm against for many of the reasons AllanJB outlined. There is no point > in adding more unmaintained packages to the tree. Over time, the > average quality of the tree will suffer.
I have not proposed adding unmaintained packages to the tree. I have proposed adding packages to the tree that are maintained. The maintainer-wanted team maintains them actively until a specific team is interested in taking over. Based on other replies to the thread, it seems no-one believes that a special team could add only so many packages that they are capable of maintaining in good quality. Also it has been brought up many times that if there is a popular package not yet in the tree, there will be someone to add and maintain it. But that doesn't seem to be the case when looking at existing maintainer-wanted bugs. Also by having a team for this, the whole team is accountable. If a maintainer-wanted ebuild is added by this team, it is done as a team - if the person in the team most interested in it is busy otherwise, the team will still take care of its bugs and quality and bumps. > We could use user contributed ebuilds attached to bugs as a way to > bring Sunrise to the contributors attention just by posting a comment > to the bug. If the contributor follows up, we get another user > maintained ebuild in Sunrise, which is good, as the current developers > don't have to do all the work. We already know some Sunrise > contributors become developers so perhaps we can use this as a way to > attract more contributors (both users and developers). Meanwhile there is no-one to add packages that are wanted by many users to the official tree. This project is meant as a remedy for that. The proposal also lists various ways for actually finding out what packages are the ones most beneficial to have in the official tree - as opposed to unknown quality attachment in bugzilla, sunrise overlay, other overlays or requests in bug entries without an attached ebuild - as to be able to inflict as much good for the distribution as possible, given the teams current capacity. -- Mart Raudsepp Gentoo Developer Mail: l...@gentoo.org Weblog: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/leio
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