On 08/25/2016 01:01 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:17:58 +0000
> "Robin H. Johnson" <robb...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
>> Over the years, the base-system package herd has grown in size. Today
>> it comprises 320 packages, of which 61 of those have more than one
>> maintainer. The packages with more than one maintainer I'm only
>> concerned about if the other maintainer is also very busy or not
>> available.
>>
>> Some of these packages are very niche, and while they continue to
>> work, they could use a bit more attention than they get presently
>> (you might only hear about them when they break and never when they
>> work). 
>>
>> They are generally NOT broken and in need of tree-cleaning, but are
>> just lacking forward momentum (not a few bugs are reasonable upstream
>> bugs or feature improvements). Many were once shiny and had lots of
>> people that cared, but that dwindled as they become mundane and just
>> expected to work.
>>
>> General increase in the number of developers in base-system would not
>> be a bad outcome from this email either ;-).
> 
> 
> Count me in then.
> 
> What's the "official" way of joining these days ?
> 
afaict add yourself to the project on the wiki and then the usual mail
alias deal.

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