Updated co-maintainership proposal -- guidelines

[Christopher Stone]

On 2/19/07, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
> It doesn't work already anymore. Just imagine *me* wanting to start
> getting involved today (if I wouldn't have started years ago) -- I would
> not know what to package as everything I use or I'm interested in is
> packaged already. But I could start as a co-maintainer for another
> package, without access to the buildsystem and observed by the primary
> maintainer.

Dude, there must be thousands of packages that still need packaging.
What are you kidding me??  There must be hundreds of games at
pygame.org _alone_ that still need packaging.  And not to mention the
fifty or so packages on the wish list[1].

You do realize that suse linux has about 22,000 packages and we only
have 8000 at best[2]?  Do you ever wonder why suse is doing so much
better than fedora on sites like distrowatch?

So the excuse of "we are running out of things to package" is totally
bogus as a reason to want to encourage co-maintainers, IMO.

If you want something to package, I can mention atleast 250 or so
games that still need to be done.  See [3] and [4].

-Chris

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/WishList
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_Distributions
[3] http://pygame.org
[4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Games