Philip Webb wrote:
061201 Alec Warner wrote:
If you look at
http://spaceparanoids.org/gentoo/gpnl/qa.php?q=no-herd-maintainer
you will see a list of packages with NO maintainer and NO herd.
For users, if you see something you use,
you may become a proxy-maintainer for it.
A quick run thro' the pkgs listed reveals 5 which seem important :
gle -- for Xscreensaver
libwmf -- for Imagemagick
libidn -- for Mutt Curl Kdelibs
openmotif + motif-config -- for Gvim
There are 6 more which are surely useful, 3 installed here :
e3 -- excellent tiny editor (installed)
ckermit -- powerful tool for accessing remote machines
(I have it installed in /usr/local ,
not having realised there was a Gentoo pkg)
sc -- spreadsheet in a terminal, ie it doesn't need X (IIRC)
nedit -- powerful pgmers' editor popular in some places
yudit -- Unicode editor (installed)
expect -- useful tool for automating interactive tasks
Perhaps you should tell users briefly what proxy-maintenance involves.
I'd like to nail the details down on this more with my team, but in my
mind I'd like to do it more (as stuff is getting cleaned without an
attempt at fixing it in some cases). Obviously there is user interest
which was one of the goals of sending this mail ;)
PS another thread mentioned Cgoban : this is very useful for Go players.
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