On 11/7/05, Rogue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 23:30:23 -0500 > "Alexander K. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There is also the issue of lack of maintainership, which is harder to solve. > > Looking closely some of the dependencies that the packages I endeavour to > maintain have no maintainer so I'll be gradually be working my way through > them and bring them up-to-date. I encourage everyone to do the same although > I realise that may be a daunting tasks for some. > > Not only that but some packages with listed maintainers are seriously out of > date which probably indicates that all things equal they are unmaintained. I > have contacted a few devs to make sure they are still interested in > maintaining these packages but I suspect there are others. Is there a system > in place that regularly reevaluates maintainership and if so what it is? >
I wouldn't refer to it as a "system", but: What we do now is that if there's a report on -devel or -core that someone's tried to contact a maintainer and hasn't heard from them or the email bounces we give the maintainer 4 weeks from when we get the report to respond to the message. If we don't hear from them in that interval we consider that the package is up for grabs. > On another subject it seems that a tracker week would be a good idea... it > seems weird to me that packages that will essentially sit in the unstable > tree would be held for that long in the tracker where most likely no-one will > be testing them. Isn't that what the unstable tree is for? > > Best Regards, > Rogue > Not quite: some of the packages that sit in the tracker do so because they just flat don't work on anybody's system other than the submitter's and are awaiting fixes, or otherwise do not comply with Fink policies--and sometimes the original submitters don't seem to follow up. Moreover, the tracker is an avenue by which _anyone_ who registers with SourceForge can upload files for perusal, while CVS upload access to any of the main trees is generally granted to people after they have gone through the process of new/updating packages a few times. -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
