On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, susmit shannigrahi wrote: > >>> If we have packages in the distro for which we cannot find enough people >>> to test outside of the package maintainer then my question is - who is >>> using it? If so few people are using it then aren't we just wasting >>> bandwidth and diskspace having it around? >> >> >> All the users are not testers. Neither all the users report back bugs. >> This assumption, with all due respect, is oversimplified. > > I agree - and in the meeting I noticed it was something worth thinking > about. > > > To be clear, fedora has almost no way to get rid of a package if it has a > maintainer. > > So we will likely grow w/o bound. This could change if we provide information about downloads/installation of packages (thinking on the one mirror in Fedoras hands or information submitted once a month (for example) from a users box). I would drop a package if nobody uses it (including me). But that's just me. -- LG Thomas Dubium sapientiae initium _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
