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On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:17:58 +0000 |
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"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> wrote: |
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> Some of these packages are very niche, and while they continue to |
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> work, they could use a bit more attention than they get presently |
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> (you might only hear about them when they break and never when they |
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> work). |
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> They are generally NOT broken and in need of tree-cleaning, but are |
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> just lacking forward momentum (not a few bugs are reasonable upstream |
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> bugs or feature improvements). Many were once shiny and had lots of |
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> people that cared, but that dwindled as they become mundane and just |
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> expected to work. |
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> General increase in the number of developers in base-system would not |
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> be a bad outcome from this email either ;-). |
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I have some (both day job and personal) interest in keeping most of the |
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packages on that list working and moving forward, and would not be |
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opposed to joining base-system to help out (if you will have me). As it |
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is, I have been helping out with openssh X509 support for awhile now. |
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> Some of this is from stuff I know needs eyeballs, and others are where |
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> the package seems to have more than a few old bugs open. |
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> Packages in need of review & tweaks or just more eyeballs |
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> ---------------------------------------------------------- |
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> app-admin/sudo (upstream?) |
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> app-admin/sysklogd- (upstream?) |
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> app-shells/bash (upstream?) |
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> dev-util/strace (upstream?) |
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> net-dialup/ppp |
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> net-firewall/iptables |
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> net-fs/nfs-utils (upstream?) |
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> net-misc/dhcpcd (upstream?) |
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> net-misc/dhcp (upstream?) |
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> net-misc/ntp (upstream?) |
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> net-misc/openssh |
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> net-nds/rpcbind |
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> sys-apps/baselayout |
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> sys-apps/coreutils (upstream?) |
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> sys-apps/kbd (upstream?) |
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> sys-block/aoetools |
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> sys-block/iscsitarget |
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> sys-block/open-iscsi |
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> sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools |
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> sys-block/vblade |
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> sys-fs/lvm2 (mostly in regards to genkernel interaction) |
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> sys-fs/multipath-tools |
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> sys-fs/quota |
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