Re: Intent to orphan / give to go-sig some unused leaf golang packages

[Fabio Valentini]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 1:21 PM Fabio Valentini <decathorpe(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hi everybody,
>
>  I'm cleaning up my packages a bit, and I currently maintain some leaf
>  packages which aren't used by anything (or anything I use) at this
>  point in time.
>
>  The packages all have the go-sig as co-admin already, but I intend to
>  drop them from my radar completely. You know, cognitive burden and
>  stuff.
>
>  - golang-github-AudriusButkevicius-kcp-go
>  - golang-github-AudriusButkevicius-pfilter
>  - golang-github-calmh-luhn
>  - golang-github-ccding-go-stun
>  - golang-github-cznic-b
>  - golang-github-cznic-fileutil
>  - golang-github-cznic-golex
>  - golang-github-cznic-internal
>  - golang-github-cznic-lex
>  - golang-github-cznic-lexer
>  - golang-github-cznic-lldb
>  - golang-github-cznic-mathutil
>  - golang-github-cznic-ql
>  - golang-github-cznic-sortutil
>  - golang-github-cznic-strutil
>  - golang-github-cznic-zappy
>  - golang-github-edsrzf-mmap-go
>  - golang-github-klauspost-reedsolomon
>  - golang-github-remyoudompheng-bigfft
>  - golang-github-templexxx-cpufeat
>  - golang-github-templexxx-reedsolomon
>  - golang-github-templexxx-xor
>  - golang-github-tjfoc-gmsm
>  - golang-github-xtaci-kcp-go
>  - golang-github-xtaci-smux
>  - golang-github-zillode-notify
>
>  The length of this list of now unused leaf packages tells its own
>  story about the go ecosystem.
>
>  As far as I can tell, nothing in fedora depends on this set of
>  packages anymore, except some inter-dependencies between the packages
>  themselves.
>
>  All the packages are up-to-date with either the latest stable release
>  (where available) or the current git master branch, and all the
>  packages use the new golang packaging macros ("spec 3.0"). Tests are
>  run where available and pass (except where they don't).
>
>  If somebody wants to take over a package personally instead of it
>  being inherited by the go-sig group, I will give them the package
>  instead. I'll give up the remaining packages on Mon, 22 Oct. 2018.
>
>  Fabio 
Done. I orphaned all of them, since nobody wanted to pick any of them up.

Fabio