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From: Patrick McLean <chutzpah@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] base-system needs developers who care
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:26:21
Message-Id: 20160823182559.5c901403@patrickm
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] base-system needs developers who care by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:17:58 +0000
2 "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Some of these packages are very niche, and while they continue to
5 > work, they could use a bit more attention than they get presently
6 > (you might only hear about them when they break and never when they
7 > work).
8 >
9 > They are generally NOT broken and in need of tree-cleaning, but are
10 > just lacking forward momentum (not a few bugs are reasonable upstream
11 > bugs or feature improvements). Many were once shiny and had lots of
12 > people that cared, but that dwindled as they become mundane and just
13 > expected to work.
14 >
15 > General increase in the number of developers in base-system would not
16 > be a bad outcome from this email either ;-).
17
18 I have some (both day job and personal) interest in keeping most of the
19 packages on that list working and moving forward, and would not be
20 opposed to joining base-system to help out (if you will have me). As it
21 is, I have been helping out with openssh X509 support for awhile now.
22
23 >
24 > Some of this is from stuff I know needs eyeballs, and others are where
25 > the package seems to have more than a few old bugs open.
26 >
27 > Packages in need of review & tweaks or just more eyeballs
28 > ----------------------------------------------------------
29 > app-admin/sudo (upstream?)
30 > app-admin/sysklogd- (upstream?)
31 > app-shells/bash (upstream?)
32 > dev-util/strace (upstream?)
33 > net-dialup/ppp
34 > net-firewall/iptables
35 > net-fs/nfs-utils (upstream?)
36 > net-misc/dhcpcd (upstream?)
37 > net-misc/dhcp (upstream?)
38 > net-misc/ntp (upstream?)
39 > net-misc/openssh
40 > net-nds/rpcbind
41 > sys-apps/baselayout
42 > sys-apps/coreutils (upstream?)
43 > sys-apps/kbd (upstream?)
44 > sys-block/aoetools
45 > sys-block/iscsitarget
46 > sys-block/open-iscsi
47 > sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools
48 > sys-block/vblade
49 > sys-fs/lvm2 (mostly in regards to genkernel interaction)
50 > sys-fs/multipath-tools
51 > sys-fs/quota
52 >