It would be a good start, but eventually, we should have something like it for all packages shipping with FreeDOS. Some packages are rather mature, so maintaining them won't be a massive job. But It think, everything we ship should have someone who people can direct questions at.
On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 at 16:24, Fritz Mueller via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Would it be enough for a first step to create an Excel sheet with all > programs in Gitlab, section FreeDOS base? > > https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base > > Something like: > command / external website? / programmer / still active yes/no? / known bugs? > (maybe short, e.g. https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/bugs/ bug number) or: > (https://gitlab.com/groups/FreeDOS/base/-/issues) > > Willi / Fritz > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2024 at 1:43 PM > From: "Danilo Pecher via Freedos-devel" <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > To: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers." > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > Cc: "Danilo Pecher" <danilo.pec...@data-experts.biz> > Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Contributing > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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
