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On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:17:58 +0000 Robin H. Johnson 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 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 |
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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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>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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I have some kind of interest for these packages: |
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app-admin/sudo |
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app-admin/sysklogd |
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app-shells/bash |
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net-dialup/ppp |
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net-firewall/iptables |
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net-misc/dhcpcd |
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net-misc/dhcp |
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net-misc/ntp |
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net-misc/openssh |
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sys-apps/coreutils |
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sys-apps/kbd |
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But I think I cannot maintain all of them alone. So yeah, fresh |
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(active!) blood in base-system would be nice. |
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Kind regards |
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Lars |
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Lars Wendler |
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Gentoo package maintainer |
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Attention! New gpg key! See |
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https://www.gentoofan.org/blog/index.php?/archives/9-New-gpg-keys.html |