From: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>
To: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] base-system needs developers who care
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 02:03:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160824020306.0df85e4c@abudhabi.paradoxon.rec> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <robbat2-20160823T221540-985481893Z@orbis-terrarum.net>
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On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:17:58 +0000 Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>Over the years, the base-system package herd has grown in size. Today
>it comprises 320 packages, of which 61 of those have more than one
>maintainer. The packages with more than one maintainer I'm only
>concerned about if the other maintainer is also very busy or not
>available.
>
>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 ;-).
>
>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
>
I have some kind of interest for these packages:
app-admin/sudo
app-admin/sysklogd
app-shells/bash
net-dialup/ppp
net-firewall/iptables
net-misc/dhcpcd
net-misc/dhcp
net-misc/ntp
net-misc/openssh
sys-apps/coreutils
sys-apps/kbd
But I think I cannot maintain all of them alone. So yeah, fresh
(active!) blood in base-system would be nice.
Kind regards
Lars
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-24 0:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-23 23:17 [gentoo-dev] base-system needs developers who care Robin H. Johnson
2016-08-23 23:36 ` Anthony G. Basile
2016-08-24 0:03 ` Lars Wendler [this message]
2016-08-24 0:08 ` Anthony G. Basile
2016-08-24 1:06 ` Benda Xu
2016-08-24 14:05 ` Lars Wendler
2016-08-24 14:08 ` Pacho Ramos
2016-08-24 14:42 ` Upgrading Old Gentoo - Was " M. J. Everitt
2016-08-29 17:18 ` Joshua Kinard
2016-08-24 15:32 ` Mike Gilbert
2016-08-24 15:49 ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-08-25 8:00 ` Alexis Ballier
2016-08-24 17:17 ` William Hubbs
2016-08-24 20:33 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2016-08-24 1:11 ` William Hubbs
2016-08-24 17:24 ` Robin H. Johnson
2016-08-24 1:25 ` Patrick McLean
2016-08-24 12:04 ` Jason Zaman
2016-08-24 15:37 ` Mike Gilbert
2016-08-25 8:01 ` Alexis Ballier
2016-08-28 6:34 ` Daniel Campbell
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