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Over the years, the base-system package herd has grown in size. Today |
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it comprises 320 packages, of which 61 of those have more than one |
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maintainer. The packages with more than one maintainer I'm only |
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concerned about if the other maintainer is also very busy or not |
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available. |
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Some of these packages are very niche, and while they continue to work, |
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they could use a bit more attention than they get presently (you might |
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only hear about them when they break and never when they work). |
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They are generally NOT broken and in need of tree-cleaning, but are just |
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lacking forward momentum (not a few bugs are reasonable upstream bugs or |
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feature improvements). Many were once shiny and had lots of people that |
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cared, but that dwindled as they become mundane and just expected to |
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work. |
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General increase in the number of developers in base-system would not be |
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a bad outcome from this email either ;-). |
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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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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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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Trustee & Treasurer |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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