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 57D55138330 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:05:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AF9B321C198; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:04:49 +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 C318021C0C9 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:04:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2404:e800:e600:57b:515f:3d06:8d:d549]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: perfinion) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 95644340928 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:04:47 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 20:04:37 +0800 From: Jason Zaman To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] base-system needs developers who care Message-ID: <20160824120437.GA20943@meriadoc.perfinion.com> References: 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-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-Archives-Salt: 210d91f0-f60a-40ee-aa00-885072bbe4fb X-Archives-Hash: e0a7fb0d636d428a103c5f2f94a610ce 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