On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Ido Rosen <ido@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Genes Lists via arch-general < > arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> refind-efi has been flagged out of date for 9 months. >> Are there any packagers who would be willing to take this one over? >> >> It is not the most out of date even ... but it's an important >> component for those who boot with it. There are plenty of others which >> are also very out of date. >> >> I counted over 220 packages marked out of date. Of those nearly 20 were >> flagged in 2015 or earlier. >> >> Some of them have newer versions in AUR; but it would be good to try >> get at least some of these updated. >> >> What's the best way to tackle this issue? >> > > Maybe recruit more TUs, have more TUs overlap in coverage areas (i.e. > encourage co-maintainership/co-packagers/teamwork/more than one > maintainer per package), and accept TUs that manage fewer packages at a > time (to reduce time commitment required per TU). > Although, it's worth noting, 220/14800 (<2%) of out of date packages at any given time (and <0.2% badly out of date) isn't that bad...
