Adding every single maintainer/bugowner of a Mono or Mono:* project CC
(I will resend this in a few minutes once I get a list of emails not
working).
The thread starts here:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2013-01/msg00537.html
On 30 January 2013 07:05, Dominique Leuenberger
On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 11:04 +0000, Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
Could somebody clarify the situation with Mono in openSUSE after Attachmate fired the entire mono team?
I can only share this sentiment...
First, somebody knows for sure if bnc-team-mono@forge.provo.novell.com goes somewhere other than /dev/null?
And then, given Andrew doesn't want to be the *main* maintainer of anything (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796901#c3). Could whoever is a real maintainer of the Mono projects clean the situation? "ajorgensen" is set as the only maintainer of a lot of packages. And what's worse, that's a dead account... Andrew now uses the user "ajorg".
There are six packages from Mono:Factory failing to build for Factory... it has been that way for more than a month and a half. If there is a lack of real maintainers (I hope there is at least one) you should publicly ask for more.
I just looked at a few mono apps yesterday (f-spot, pdfmod, bareftp) and even though they 'built' in Factory, not a single one of those was starting (they live in GNOME:Apps namespace).
Our current Mono packages in Factory / 12.3 are in a REALLY bad state (some fixes are on their way to Factory... but there are more to come).
In no way do I suggest to become maintainer of Mono, but we as a project should either be sticking together and 'fix that bug' or decide to do the same with the Mono stack as we did with the Mono team and sack that thing.
Dropping Mono of course is not just as simple as it sounds: a bunch of additional packages will have to be either adopted to build without mono or have to go with it...
(In a first round, as I'm currently busy, I'm working on fixing the apps I can find that are built with mono.. in most cases it's a mismatch between .Net 2.0 and .Net 4.0 targets being linked together.)
@Coolo: this entire 'fix exercise means you get probably a bunch of weird looking SRs these days..
Dominique
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