Fedora Developers Discuss The Idea Of "Lightly Maintained" Packages

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fedora Developers Discuss The Idea Of "Lightly Maintained" Packages

Fedora stakeholders and the folks at Red Hat have been discussing the idea of having a "lightly maintained" package repository (or some RPM metadata otherwise to indicate such light maintenance) for packages that are either very new, not receiving much packaging attention, or simply used as a build dependency for other packages...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-Lightly-Maintained-RPMs

[kpedersen]

"for packages that are either very new, not receiving much packaging attention, or simply used as a build dependency for other packages"

I notice that packages for software that is largely "feature complete" doesn't get mentioned. In open-source some things can reach as close to "done" as possible unlike in the commercial world which needs (sometimes pointless) updates to attempt to earn more money. I think sometimes this can be a little hard to justify. Everyone just thinks the project is then dead!

[bregma]

Everyone just thinks the project is then dead!

It's very true. Successful open source project maintainers know they need to ring a bell on a regular basis to elicit a Pavlovian response from consumers. It's easy enough with the free government-sponsored CVE marketing channel and packagers will get right on that severity 9.8 DoS CVE "application terminates when sent a SIGHUP".

[Guest]

It's very true. Successful open source project maintainers know they need to ring a bell on a regular basis to elicit a Pavlovian response from consumers. It's easy enough with the free government-sponsored CVE marketing channel and packagers will get right on that severity 9.8 DoS CVE "application terminates when sent a SIGHUP".

What is dead may never die