Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 09:13:11AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This mail tries to address the problem of not orphaned, poorly maintained >> or useless packages in Debian. The proposal below tries to address both >> cases, because they are often related. (useless packages tend to be >> poorly maintained, and vice-versa). >> >> [I originally planned to discuss this during the QA meeting. But it might >> be a better idea to first start the discussion on the mailing list, so we >> get a rough idea of the things that have to be discussed in the meeting. >> Also, this was originally posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since it didn't >> degenerate into >> a flamewar, I'm posting this to -devel@ after doing some minor changes to >> get opinions from a larger audience.] >> > > It seems like a great idea to remove some pacakges that are not getting > the attention from the developers and are not the best they can be for > the users. I have a point to add: > > If I am a user of one of these packages who may have the skill to adopt > it or may know someone who can, I may want to know about its orphaning. > At current, this is going to be noted on -devel. > > I would like a message on the user lists on _all_ orphaned packages, > maybe just a CC of the current WNPP report?
I think many people wouldn't be happy to receive all those emails. What about just running wnpp-alert once a week? you can even setup a weekly cronjob and receive the reports in your email account ;-) > > While I guess interested folks may be expected to look into maintaining > a package they use, it may not happen because they assume 'someone out > there' is doing it. But an ocassional email to the 'users of debian' > telling that something is going to be orphaned, might wake up those "out > of the loop." Any chance to get folks interested in Debian seem like a > great thing, even if its only an odd email on user list. What's a few > bytes between friends ;-) > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
