On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:26:05AM -0500, Robert Schweikert wrote:
The Debian project also has a very long list of orphaned packages and packages up for adoption.
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa_bypackage http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned
OK.
Anyway, what other distros do is not necessarily our concern. Fact is that there are not enough maintainers.
I agree. But look and taking what is good and leave what is bad should be the idea.
I do agree that a list for orphaned packages in openSUSE would be nice. This should probably be generated once a month and maybe packages that have not found a home in 6 month get dropped. Having a counter next to an orphaned package indicating how much time is left before the package gets dropped would be nice. Maybe a "popup" during install could inform people installing an orphaned package that the package is on the orphaned list and might be dropped soon.
That would indeed be already a good start. (next to looking how we could be getting more maintainers.) houghi -- First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure. -- Douglas Adams. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org