On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
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 ;-).
>

This...kinda touches on a side issue.  I've been a bit waylaid by RL issues
during my quest to become a developer myself, and both of my prospective
mentors had to step aside for the same reason before the process could
finish.

I'm a little slow on the quizzes and some recent changes in gentoo
invalidated some of my answers, so part of it is my fault for falling
behind.

But I was kinda wondering, is there anything that can be done to beef up
the manpower?  Is there any need to?

>
> 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
>
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