[opensuse-packaging] Base:System "cleanup"
Hi, As I heard more and more conflicting complaints about Base:System I decided to go and do something about it. The complaints were either "I get too many mails about it, so I stopped caring" or "I can't care right now, but I don't want other people to work on my requests". As Base:System is just too large to follow one policy, but it's still about the most important devel project we have for the distribution, I think extra care is to be taken. So I did two things (in the light, but not following Robert's words 100%): - Reduced the list of project maintainers of Base:System *dramatically*, leaving still enough of people to be sure there are maintainers around to review things like adding new packages. - Added package bugowners also as maintainers to their packages. - Added the top 3 contributors to a package also as maintainer - unless the contribution is a single commit to the package. So if you find yourself now in or out a package you care or not care, please either just email me or file an add_role request. Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 04:08:04PM +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Hi,
As I heard more and more conflicting complaints about Base:System I decided to go and do something about it.
The complaints were either "I get too many mails about it, so I stopped caring" or "I can't care right now, but I don't want other people to work on my requests".
As Base:System is just too large to follow one policy, but it's still about the most important devel project we have for the distribution, I think extra care is to be taken.
So I did two things (in the light, but not following Robert's words 100%):
- Reduced the list of project maintainers of Base:System *dramatically*, leaving still enough of people to be sure there are maintainers around to review things like adding new packages.
- Added package bugowners also as maintainers to their packages.
- Added the top 3 contributors to a package also as maintainer - unless the contribution is a single commit to the package.
So if you find yourself now in or out a package you care or not care, please either just email me or file an add_role request.
Great job! What about cleaning it up? I see it have 344 packages, but most of the things are not related to anything like system base - bootchart, brlemu, d-feet and others and can be freely moved out I already have some list, so maybe we can create a wiki with a proposal(s). Regards Michal Vyskocil
On 08.11.2012 12:42, Michal Vyskocil wrote:
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 04:08:04PM +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Hi,
As I heard more and more conflicting complaints about Base:System I decided to go and do something about it.
The complaints were either "I get too many mails about it, so I stopped caring" or "I can't care right now, but I don't want other people to work on my requests".
As Base:System is just too large to follow one policy, but it's still about the most important devel project we have for the distribution, I think extra care is to be taken.
So I did two things (in the light, but not following Robert's words 100%):
- Reduced the list of project maintainers of Base:System *dramatically*, leaving still enough of people to be sure there are maintainers around to review things like adding new packages.
- Added package bugowners also as maintainers to their packages.
- Added the top 3 contributors to a package also as maintainer - unless the contribution is a single commit to the package.
So if you find yourself now in or out a package you care or not care, please either just email me or file an add_role request.
Great job!
What about cleaning it up? I see it have 344 packages, but most of the things are not related to anything like system base - bootchart, brlemu, d-feet and others and can be freely moved out
I already have some list, so maybe we can create a wiki with a proposal(s).
We already moved *some* to utilities - but it basically comes down to maintainers caring ;( and bootchart is dead with systemd afaik. Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org
Le jeudi 08 novembre 2012 à 17:48 +0100, Stephan Kulow a écrit :
On 08.11.2012 12:42, Michal Vyskocil wrote:
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 04:08:04PM +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Hi,
As I heard more and more conflicting complaints about Base:System I decided to go and do something about it.
The complaints were either "I get too many mails about it, so I stopped caring" or "I can't care right now, but I don't want other people to work on my requests".
As Base:System is just too large to follow one policy, but it's still about the most important devel project we have for the distribution, I think extra care is to be taken.
So I did two things (in the light, but not following Robert's words 100%):
- Reduced the list of project maintainers of Base:System *dramatically*, leaving still enough of people to be sure there are maintainers around to review things like adding new packages.
- Added package bugowners also as maintainers to their packages.
- Added the top 3 contributors to a package also as maintainer - unless the contribution is a single commit to the package.
So if you find yourself now in or out a package you care or not care, please either just email me or file an add_role request.
Great job!
What about cleaning it up? I see it have 344 packages, but most of the things are not related to anything like system base - bootchart, brlemu, d-feet and others and can be freely moved out
I already have some list, so maybe we can create a wiki with a proposal(s).
We already moved *some* to utilities - but it basically comes down to maintainers caring ;(
and bootchart is dead with systemd afaik.
not completely (for initrd for instance). There is work to merge "intel"
bootchart into systemd but it is not yet available.
--
Frederic Crozat
Le mercredi 07 novembre 2012, à 16:08 +0100, Stephan Kulow a écrit :
- Added the top 3 contributors to a package also as maintainer - unless the contribution is a single commit to the package.
This seems to have some nice side-effect where I became maintainer of some packages I don't really look at. I cleaned that a bit, but I'm left with one package: obex-data-server. This is needed for good bluetooth support. Is someone willing to maintain that? Cheers, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org
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Frederic Crozat -
Michal Vyskocil -
Stephan Kulow -
Vincent Untz