I agree. We should start keeping track of who maintains what, and perhaps even throw out packages that are not maintained and nobody feels like taking over. That could also help to reduce the inflation in neccessary installation media size.
On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 at 12:24, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > > > Am 17.12.2024 um 01:29 schrieb Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel > > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>: > > > > There is no list of projects with or without maintainers. > > > > But, out of the hundreds of packages that are included with the FreeDOS > > Release only a handful are being actively maintained. > > Perhaps then we should start maintaining such a list, at least for the very > core of FreeDOS? > > For example, who feels currently responsible for the kernel? Who pushes out > new releases? Who makes sure that bug reports are responded to, so that > people investing time contacting us do not waste their time? > > As it is now, while quite a few people contribute to different parts of the > FreeDOS ecosystem, there seems to be a lack of decision making. And I think > that this is mainly a result of the programs not having well-defined > maintainers. > > To make a start: I feel responsible for FDISK, so would consider myself its > current "maintainer". > > The people on such list could be contacted once a year or so to ask if they > are still willing to contribute... > > Bernd > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
