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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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> 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 |
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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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Count me in then. |
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What's the "official" way of joining these days ? |