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Re: What's going on in there ?

Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> writes:

> 3) There's a trend to always add packages and packages while there 
> are several packages that aren't actively maintained.

There is no mechanism to forbid people to provide packages. Do we
really want one?

> We still have 
> old a.out packages while everyone discusses and argues about the 
> virtues of a new source format. Let's start by having _all_ packages 
> actively maintained and compliant with the current standard.

I maintain a list of packages that need maintenance and send it to the
mailing lists regularly. It is also on the web site.

How should I force people to take over some of these packages?

> There's also the 'serial packager' kind of maintainer. Some of us 
> package plenty of software and then give them away...

I didn't like this habit either, but which mechanism dou you suggest
to avoid this? Sometimes I gave some advice to new maintainers, but
there is no official force behind this.

> Maybe it would be good to get a list of all the orphaned packages and 
> tell new potential maintainers to get one of them (maybe old 
> maintainers too).

> 4) While our bug count heads towards the bug #10000 quite quickly, 
> there are plenty of bugs still unresolved. We should 
> solve/forward/close them.

The good message is that the number of open bug reports stagnated
during the last months.

Introducing priorities to bug reports would make it more easier to
evaluate the quality state of a package, but someone has to have
enough time in order to code such bug tracking system enhancements.

> 5) Debian has been less and less fun lately.

That's partially true, but hoping that it will get better really helps
the mood.

	Sven
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