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
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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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Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Trustee & Treasurer
E-Mail   : robbat2@gentoo.org
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