[csw-maintainers] Work for prospective maintainers: Weighted Buglisting. Orphaned packages?

Sebastian Kayser skayser at opencsw.org
Tue Aug 31 18:44:42 CEST 2010


* Sebastian Kayser <skayser at opencsw.org> wrote:
> * Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Sebastian Kayser <skayser at opencsw.org> wrote:
> > > there's a prospective maintainer whom I would like to present with a
> > > list of possible packages which are up for adoption or worth working on.
> > >
> > > The weighted buglisting still seems to be online [1], any chance to have
> > > it integrated into the new website (include + a bit of CSS)? Further, is
> > > the list of orphaned packages ("no maintainer") still available
> > > somewhere? Wasn't able to find it just now.
> > >
> > 
> > There is a difference between completely "orphaned" and "maintainer
> > has retired".
> > The list of truly "orphaned" packages is very short: ntop and libnet
> > 
> > http://www.opencsw.org/maintainers/orphaned/
> > 
> > The list of "packages last touched by a retired maintainer" is
> > considerably longer.
> 
> Shouldn't these kind of packages be listed as orphaned too? At least
> there's no one explicitly taking care of them.

Totally forgot, thanks for the manually assembled list! If there was an
official way to get to such a list even better.

Sebastian


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