[maemo-developers] promotion of orphaned packages

[From: Nicolai Hess]

2011/12/14 Attila Csipa <maemo at csipa.in.rs>

> On 14-Dec-11 03:00, Roberto Colistete Jr. wrote:
>
>> This have been talked about, but stopped at a question - do you really
>>> want orphaned packages published in Extras ? If a problem surfaces or a
>>> bug gets reported, there is nobody to take care of it, and removal can
>>> get really tricky (who gets final say as how broken it has to be to ask
>>> Niels to remove it, what if there are other packages depending on the
>>> orphaned one, etc).
>>>
>>
>> My opinion : if the orphaned package is in extras-testing for a long
>> time (1 month or more) and has a lot of positive votes (12, 2x the 6
>> needed to promotion), then it is reasonable that it is stable and well
>> tested. So it should be promoted to extras by some Maemo admin member.
>>
>
> Two problems:
>
> 1. The apps might have been tested on older versions of dependencies,
> which have been superseeded in the meantime. For example I have deprecated
> QtMobility 1.1, so it doesn't matter how well tested it was, that version
> of mobility is no longer available. Ditto for, say, things that depend on
> the kernel - it might work on one (old) version of the power kernel, but
> not another, etc.
>
> 2. It's not about promoting, it's about dealing with it when it's already
> in Extras and it goes wrong (and things do go wrong). If it's an orphaned
> package, there is a lack final authority who can (from a technical
> perspective) say what should be done, should it be a known issue, should it
> be removed, can someone take over, etc, etc. This is already a problem in
> Extras, it's just not too widespread (partially because the orphaned
> packages that could cause problem are stuck in testing) so we are in
> practice ignoring it.
>
> Best regards,
> Attila Csipa
>
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Is it possible to transfer the maintainance for orphaned packages to other,
still active, developers?
If so, I would volunteer myself for maintainance of some orphaned packages.

Nicolai
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