Hi Patrick,
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I think I'm still not getting my point across. It might be
convenient
to have a centralised place for users to request packages, and
currently there isn't (you've mentioned a Wiki page several times but
not provided a URL, so maybe this already exists and I don't know about
it). Nothing would constitute an obligation of course, but
devels/packagers looking for interesting projects could perhaps use
such a list to get some ideas. That's all.
The wiki page is:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainers_wishlist
FWIW, I do think it's better to spend time helping folks who
want to see something packaged to learn how to package.
Then they can scratch their own itch. And we'll have
someone maintaining the package that actually uses it.
I've seen folks get involved and take on large amounts of
packages which they don't really use and it often leads to
that person becoming overloaded. Then they either suffer
themselves or the packages they maintain suffer. Neither is
an ideal outcome for the maintainer, the users, nor Fedora.
--
Todd