[arch-dev-public] Repo cleanup / Package adoption

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Eric Belanger
<belanger at astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
>  This is yet another repo cleanup package adoption thread. There hasn't been
> much feedback when I last brought up the subject so let's try to fix this
> once for all. This is an important issue.
>
>  The cleanup is mostly done. The current issue is orphaned (make)depends.
> I'll repeat the process.
>
>  Go to https://dev.archlinux.org/wiki/Repo%20Cleanup/ There is the list of
> orphans and the packages that depends on them. The name of the maintainer of
> the package depending on orphans is also listed so just search for your
> name.  It's as simple as that so it only takes a few minutes. Keep in mind
> that these orphanes are in the repo because YOUR package depends on them so
> they need to be maintained as well. There are still orphaned core packages.
> Of course, anyone is free to adopt any orphans that they wish.
>
>  Once you adopted some packages, remove them from the list to keep the list
> up-to-date. You can also post the list of packages you have adopted in this
> thread and I'll take care of removing them from the wiki list. Either way,
> please reply in this thread to confirm that you went through the list. That
> will give me an idea on how many devs have checked the list.
>
>  However, it is possible that some of you already have the maximum workload
> that they can handle so they can't really adopt any or all of their
> packages' orphaned depends. At least, check the list to see if your packages
> depends on orphaned packages and let us know. Perhaps someone else, who can
> add to their current workload, would be willing to adopt some of these
> orphans especially if they use the package that depends on them.  I'm sure
> we'll be able to split the present orphans workload somehow between us.
> Currently, we just need an idea on the current workload state.
>
>  In summary, we should ideally get a reply in this thread from every active
> dev confirming that they went though the wiki list and:
>  a) have adopted all or some of their "assigned" orphans and have modified
> the list accordingly
>  or
>  b) have adopted all or some of their "assigned" orphans and posted a list
> here so I can update the wiki
>  and/or
>  c) have adopted none or only some of their "assigned" orphans because of
> too high workload or other reason.

I grabbed:
   aiksaurus
   gtkmathview
   libots

They all look like one-offs due to abiword-plugins... and also:
   librep
   rep-gtk

But I doubt I can pull in much more.

Off topic:
sqlite2 is on that list along due to python-sqlite-legacy... do you
guys think we still need sqlite2? I don't think anything still needs
it for backwards compat.


>  I haven't updated the wiki list since the last time except a when I happen
> to stumble on a new orphan so it might be slightly out-of-date compared to
> the dashboard orphans.  When it'll be significantly smaller, I'll update it.

I just removed the ones I listed above.

Thanks for all the hardwork Eric. Considering you've put the most time
into this - do you think we need more package maintainers to handle
the load? Or do you think we could more properly distribute what we
have among ourselves?