Am 30.11.19 um 07:27 schrieb Chris Adams:
> I think the problem is that unmaintained packages are still
> unmaintained; drive-by changes by provenpackagers are not actual
> maintenance, because that's not a scalable organization (expecting
> provenpackagers to do all maintenance on random packages).
I agree. One thing that is missing in Fedora is a process to involve users in
the actual distribution maintenance (and I think this is mostly a technical/
tooling problem not a social one).
For example:
- orphaned packages
- When a package gets orphaned, I think a bot should post a comment to
existing bugzilla issues which explains the situation and asks the users
to step up (this "call to action" process should come with detailed
step-by-step instructions on how to take care of that orphaned package).
- When I have an orphaned package installed I'd like to get a notification
(desktop/server) so I am aware that this package may not receive security
updates any longer. (And again "call to action" for regular users to step
up.)
- package testing
Manually checking updates-testing is too tedious and usually I don't want
to install everything in updates-testing right away. But there are some
packages which I like to get as fast as possible/which I can test easily.
- So I would like to get some kind of "notification" when such a package
goes into updates-testing + a reminder to give feedback.
- As an extension we could ask users who use certain applications regularly
if they want to try an update + ask them for bodhi karma after 1-2 days.
- Flag "co-maintainers wanted". As a packager I'd like to mark some packages
where I'd like see more co-maintainers (e.g. for libraries I maintain only
because another app uses them). Packagers for dependent projects should be
be notified that this library is in need of further maintainers.
But of course all of that requires coding and "someone" to do it :-/
Anyway: lowering the bar to contribute to Fedora + integrating with Fedora
users is something the Fedora project needs to do.
Felix
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