Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Project proposal -- maintainer-wanted

[Mart Raudsepp]

On K, 2009-05-20 at 00:55 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o> posted
> 1242777068.30374.30.camel@localhost, excerpted below, on  Wed, 20 May 2009
> 02:51:08 +0300:
>
> > It is about getting popular packages (based on various metrics) into the
> > official tree for easy access and with known quality.
>
> Perhaps some concrete examples of packages you have in mind might be
> useful.

A big part of the thing is to get things better qualified in popularity.
Encouraging users on maintainer-wanted bugs (automatically adding a link
to a describing page if assignee=maintainer-wanted?) to leave their
votes appropriately, automated methods to sort bugs based on comment and
activity, comparing with popularity metrics in other distributions that
have something like the not-really-existing yet gentoo-stats, perhaps
working on gentoo-stats, etc etc.

> I list in the footnote[1] a couple I originally merged from
> sunrise, that are now in-tree.  I that the type of package you had in
> mind?  What /about/ sunrise packages?  Will you be working with them to
> bring "popular" packages from there in-tree too?
>
> Of course in your case the ebuilds aren't in the tree yet, but bug
> numbers for apps you believe fit the "popular" description might be
> useful.  "Popular packages" is a nebulous enough term on its own, that
> some examples might help.

These metrics should be worked out by an upcoming team then, not
ignoring common sense. But perhaps a few examples then:

miro
songbird
moovida (previously known as Elisa Media Center)
paperbox
shutter

I see many of the ones I was able to list seem to be either complex
deptree packages that no-one has been motivated enough yet to push
through (so hopefully once that hard work gets done once, a dedicated
maintainer is found easily), and stuff that would be cool to use once
it's easily available and found, but not something people very much
depend on to care that much alone for themselves, hence a team finding
such packages at first could be useful.

> Also, an example or two of what you might consider a borderline case,
> that you might consider adding if the load on the proposed project wasn't
> too high already, but would reject if it was.  Feel free to add comments
> or explanations on how you came to that conclusion, both for the popular
> and borderline examples, as well, if you think it necessary.
>
> .....
>
> [1] I still use sys-apps/moreutils.
>
> The other one was www-plugins/swfdec-mozilla and its dep media-libs-
> swfdec, which I had some trouble with and eventually unmerged in favor of
> a couple of youtube downloaders, since youtube was what I mainly used
> swfdec for anyway.

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Mart Raudsepp
Gentoo Developer
Mail: leio@g.o
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