Re: LuaRocks survey

[Nagaev Boris <bnagaev@...>]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 9:40 PM, Etiene Dalcol <dalcol@etiene.net> wrote:
> There: https://github.com/Etiene/luatakeme
> List of abandoned projects looking for new takers and list of active
> projects looking for more contributors

Well done!

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> 2016-01-31 19:09 GMT+01:00 Nagaev Boris <bnagaev@gmail.com>:
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>> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Hisham <h@hisham.hm> wrote:
>> > On 31 January 2016 at 16:25, Nagaev Boris <bnagaev@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> I propose the following solution. Broken / unmaintained rocks and Lua
>> >> packages without a rock are reported to
>> >> https://github.com/keplerproject/luarocks/issues Those volunteers who
>> >> has time, convert them into rocks and upload to the LuaRocks server.
>> >
>> > No, please, the LuaRocks bug tracker is for reporting bugs in LuaRocks
>> > (the tool itself).
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>> > Likewise, https://github.com/leafo/luarocks-site/issues is for
>> > reporting issues in the workings of the LuaRocks.org website (not the
>> > rocks).
>> >
>> > * Report broken rocks to their maintainers.
>> > * Unmaintained rocks are, sadly, unmantained, and are available for
>> > taking over — if someone is willing to take one up, please contact us
>> > at the luarocks-developers mailing list.
>> > * If one considers that a packages without a rock is an issue, one can
>> > report to the issue tracker of that package. If the package authors
>> > are not willing to pack a rock themselves, then the issue remains
>> > open, and maybe some other user of the package who also wants a rock
>> > will pick that issue up and fix it.
>> >
>> > -- Hisham
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>> If this information would be distributed over many bug trackers, it
>> would be hard to find such packages. As a result, nobody would
>> maintain them. Can we create a list of packages, which need
>> maintenance? It can be located on dedicated GitHub project or on
>> LuaRocks site. Or on both: sources on GitHub and pretty HTML viewer on
>> LuaRocks site.
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>> --
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>> Best regards,
>> Boris Nagaev
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> Etiene Dalcol
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> Software Engineering student at ENSTA Bretagne and PUC-Rio
> Sailor Developer http://sailorproject.org
> Lua Ladies Founder http://lualadies.org
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Best regards,
Boris Nagaev