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Bug 681996 - media-video project: disband or reduce?
Summary: media-video project: disband or reduce?
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Council
Classification: Unclassified
Component: unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo Media-video project
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Reported: 2019-03-29 10:43 UTC by Michał Górny
Modified: 2021-04-18 07:17 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Attachments
video-pkgs.txt (video-pkgs.txt,18.93 KB, text/plain)
2019-09-27 09:33 UTC, Michał Górny
Details
list 2021-04-18 (media-video.txt,17.53 KB, text/plain)
2021-04-18 07:17 UTC, Michał Górny
Details

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Description Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2019-03-29 10:43:18 UTC
We've already established that herd-like projects don't work well.  The project member listing already proves that people within the project have disjoint areas of interest, and media-video@ sometimes ends hiding unmaintained packages.

Could you please consider either:

a. disbanding the project entirely, and adding yourselves as individual maintainers to packages you care about, or

b. reducing the project to maintain 'core' packages (like libraries), and finding dedicated maintainers for packages outside the core set?

At this moment, media-video@ is listed in metadata.xml of 191 packages.  According to repology, 38 are outdated, and some quite seriously.
Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2019-09-27 09:33:32 UTC
Created attachment 591158 [details]
video-pkgs.txt

Here's a list of packages maintained by media-video@, sorted by latest commit.  If I receive no reply, I will proceed starting with bottom-most packages, either moving them to m-n or lastriting.
Comment 2 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2021-04-18 03:21:02 UTC
If you still have the script, shall we revisit this for untouched pkgs?
Comment 3 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2021-04-18 07:10:25 UTC
(In reply to Sam James from comment #2)
> If you still have the script, shall we revisit this for untouched pkgs?

It's pkg-newest-commit.py in qa-scripts repo.  You can grep by maintainer and xargs the package list to it.
Comment 4 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2021-04-18 07:17:21 UTC
Created attachment 700461 [details]
list 2021-04-18

I didn't realize this bug was that old.  Time flies so fast!