I'd like to discuss the possibilities of restructuring or disbanding the graphics project. No offense to the project members intended but I feel like the way things work today is suboptimal, and not all packages under graphics@ maintenance are actually maintained. I don't believe 'graphics-related' is a good scope for a project. More specifically, I don't believe we can expect M developers to work on N (≫ M) unrelated graphics packages, especially that they cover many different areas, including libraries, converters, photo viewers, photo editors, vector graphics software, blender... My proposal would be to either: a. disband graphics project entirely, let project members take the packages they're personally interested in and move everything else to m-needed. b. limit graphics project to 'core' packages (e.g. common libraries such as libjpeg, libpng...), and move everything else to individual maintainers/m-needed. What do you think? FWICS graphics project maintains almost 150 packages right now. If you're not ready for big steps yet, it may be a good idea to let others grab at least some of them.
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Created attachment 591154 [details] graphics-pkgs.txt Here's a list of packages maintained by graphics@, sorted by last commit date. If I receive no reply, I'm going to start at the bottom and either start moving them to maintainer-needed or lastriting them.
Michał: I still take care of a few packages I use and maintain (darktable, hugin and a few deps). Should I assign myself as maintainer there? And I'm not really sure what's best to do with the graphics project, since nobody is really active in there...
(In reply to Markus Meier from comment #3) > Michał: I still take care of a few packages I use and maintain (darktable, > hugin and a few deps). Should I assign myself as maintainer there? Yes, having dedicated maintainers on at least some of the packages would certainly be helpful to identify them as really maintained. > And I'm not really sure what's best to do with the graphics project, since > nobody is really active in there... Indeed. I was thinking keeping it for the sake of basic libs like libjpeg, libpng etc. may make sense. Maybe I'll start by dropping leaf packages to m-needed (like programs that don't look like very generic tools).
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=aefcfab833320af67edd6f8f4d620999f3fadbc3 commit aefcfab833320af67edd6f8f4d620999f3fadbc3 Author: Aaron Bauman <bman@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-06-06 18:19:41 +0000 Commit: Aaron Bauman <bman@gentoo.org>aefcfab833320af67edd6f8f4d620999f3fadbc3 CommitDate: 2020-06-06 18:50:17 +0000 */*: re-assign graphics project ebuilds to m-n
