From: Jason Zaman <perfinion@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] base-system needs developers who care
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 20:04:37 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160824120437.GA20943@meriadoc.perfinion.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <robbat2-20160823T221540-985481893Z@orbis-terrarum.net>
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:17:58PM +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.
I'll join too. I use a fair few of them and there is SELinux integration
in most of the core packages so at the very least i'll help there.
-- Jason
>
> 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
>
> --
> Robin Hugh Johnson
> Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Trustee & Treasurer
> E-Mail : robbat2@gentoo.org
> GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85
> GnuPG FP : 7D0B3CEB E9B85B1F 825BCECF EE05E6F6 A48F6136
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-24 12:05 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
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 [this message]
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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