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

[Mart Raudsepp]

On N, 2009-05-28 at 11:55 +0400, Peter Volkov wrote:
> В Чтв, 14/05/2009 в 03:32 +0300, Mart Raudsepp пишет:
> > Project maintainer-wanted
> > =========================
>
> Mart, I think that it's good idea to create such project but with a
> different goals. I think currently maintainer-wanted alias is missed by
> most developers: new packages are assigned there and from time to time
> random developer picks package he needs or user moves ebuild into
> Sunrise but nobody actually cares about packages/mail going there in
> general. The goal of maintainer-wanted project could be just gather
> statistics and highlighting most popular/interesting packages there.
> Something like "Top 10 most popular maintainer-wanted packages" monthly
> e-mail could be really useful.

Good idea in my opinion, but in a different way - the team could
maintain such a (unordered) list with varying package count size and
pick the packages to put to portage tree by them out of that list as
well when the manpower allows to maintain the package in question. But
having a list before actually packaging them in official tree could
serve as another list where other maintainers could pick them up and
package them before maintainer-wanted would, skipping the otherwise
supposedly short time maintainer-wanted would be maintaining it --
packages that are maintained by maintainer-wanted would have a list to
pick from as well, and the interested maintainer could find it from that
one too.

Above when I said "maintainer-wanted" I meant the herd/team with another
more suitable name then to not confuse with bugs assigned to that alias
that are still not maintained by anyone in the official tree (yes,
co-operation with Sunrise and the like I'd see as important).

-- 
Mart Raudsepp
Gentoo Developer
Mail: leio@g.o
Weblog: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/leio