On 01/24/2014 05:05 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Agreed. It is atleast a metric that can be tweaked as opposed to
pretending that all packages with inactive upstreams is a deep
resource drain on Fedora.
It's not pretending anything if you question what I suggest you get
input from the arm team they are the once that most recently went
through all the packages right.
Let's hear from them how well much time they spent fixing unmaintained
or badly maintained packages for nothing.
I would suggest that when we identify such packages, we take steps
to try and get more maintainers for those packages first before trying
to cull them off. For instance, sending a note to fedora announce
list and here with the list of problematic packages. That way,
everyone will have a fair chance to try and rescue the packages they
care about.
What you are proposing is what has been tried to be achieved for the
past ten years and utterly failed hence we need a different approach.
I say we remove those unmaintained components and if and when interest
comes back to maintain those components then they will just have to pass
through package review again.
JBG