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 69F91138330 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:18:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6625321C06B; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:18:00 +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 7AD1421C012 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:17:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from grubbs.orbis-terrarum.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8990B3405BB for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:17:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 16107 invoked by uid 10000); 23 Aug 2016 23:17:58 -0000 Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:17:58 +0000 From: "Robin H. Johnson" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] base-system needs developers who care Message-ID: 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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="JYK4vJDZwFMowpUq" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-Archives-Salt: a342259c-8291-46af-92a6-bfadd4476e31 X-Archives-Hash: 5ec0d824d5a240e189550a1c819896f0 --JYK4vJDZwFMowpUq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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).=20 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=20 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 --=20 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 --JYK4vJDZwFMowpUq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.1 Comment: Robbat2 @ Orbis-Terrarum Networks - The text below is a digital signature. If it doesn't make any sense to you, ignore it. iKUEARECAGYFAle82aZfFIAAAAAALgAoaXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3Bl bnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldDc1OTQwNEJFQkQ0MUY3MTIzODIzODZFRjNF OTIyQzIyMzIzM0MyMkMACgkQPpIsIjIzwizDhACgg6wZEAmFE93P2EzkUdHGDzW1 /qAAmLnMPclNIzuM4Z4O/E6vKlrEsE8= =RDZr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --JYK4vJDZwFMowpUq--