From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D9529138330 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:26:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 82E0B21C0A1; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:26:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9534621C03C for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:26:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from patrickm (unknown [100.42.98.196]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: chutzpah) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DF1CF3408DD for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:26:09 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 18:25:59 -0700 From: Patrick McLean To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] base-system needs developers who care Message-ID: <20160823182559.5c901403@patrickm> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.0 (GTK+ 2.24.30; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f977b9f1-824a-4f26-8c57-a3c9925d8606 X-Archives-Hash: 152a6e4a17784c900d79838a66db6673 On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:17:58 +0000 "Robin H. Johnson" wrote: > Some of these packages are very niche, and while they continue to > work, they could use a bit more attention than they get presently > (you might only hear about them when they break and never when they > work). > > They are generally NOT broken and in need of tree-cleaning, but are > just lacking forward momentum (not a few bugs are reasonable upstream > bugs or feature improvements). Many were once shiny and had lots of > people that cared, but that dwindled as they become mundane and just > expected to work. > > General increase in the number of developers in base-system would not > be a bad outcome from this email either ;-). I have some (both day job and personal) interest in keeping most of the packages on that list working and moving forward, and would not be opposed to joining base-system to help out (if you will have me). As it is, I have been helping out with openssh X509 support for awhile now. > > Some of this is from stuff I know needs eyeballs, and others are where > the package seems to have more than a few old bugs open. > > Packages in need of review & tweaks or just more eyeballs > ---------------------------------------------------------- > app-admin/sudo (upstream?) > app-admin/sysklogd- (upstream?) > app-shells/bash (upstream?) > dev-util/strace (upstream?) > net-dialup/ppp > net-firewall/iptables > net-fs/nfs-utils (upstream?) > net-misc/dhcpcd (upstream?) > net-misc/dhcp (upstream?) > net-misc/ntp (upstream?) > net-misc/openssh > net-nds/rpcbind > sys-apps/baselayout > sys-apps/coreutils (upstream?) > sys-apps/kbd (upstream?) > sys-block/aoetools > sys-block/iscsitarget > sys-block/open-iscsi > sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools > sys-block/vblade > sys-fs/lvm2 (mostly in regards to genkernel interaction) > sys-fs/multipath-tools > sys-fs/quota >