Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > So we created this awesome alias to put ebuilds that need a maintainer. > Good idea at the time, decent idea still. The problem? We have nearly > 2000 open bugs assigned to maintainer-wanted[1]. I would like to > discuss policy on these. Do we keep them, do we get a group of people > to slowly review and discard them? Do we mind having a ton of things > open like this (a quasi-ebuild db of sorts). Is bugs the right place > for this sort of thing, or can we improve somewhere/how?
Yea, the current situation has quickly turned into a mess. I definately
think that QA should definately be watching
maintainer-wanted/maintainer-needed and helping clean up new ebuilds, or
removing old unmaintained packages that no one cares about anymore. The
problem with maintainer-wanted is the pure number of possible packages
we *could* have in the tree, but no one wants to add. After discussing
this briefly with antarus, I agree that it might be cool to write up our
own homebrewed app to handle this.
Basically, it would be something that allowed you to "browse" the current
tree of submitted ebuilds. This way users that submit something can
categorize it for devs to easily look for ebuilds they may be interested
in, and we can make it so we could easily grab the ebuilds from this hacked
up idea of a tree. It would make it a lot easier to do automated checks
against submitted ebuilds for QA issues, and we would offload all of those
submissions from bugs.g.o to this app. I guess you could think of it as
the overlays.g.o idea, but I tend to think overlays are experimental
things that aren't necessarily going to be added to the tree. This
would be for ebuilds/packages that are ready to be added to the tree,
but just lack someone that wants to maintain them.
Comments on this idea are appreciated. I wouldn't mind helping write it
and maintain it, but having interest and support in doing something like
this is definately going to be needed :)
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