Re: [gentoo-dev] Cross Post due to technical component - Thanks for all the fish

[M. J. Everitt]

On 07/12/16 01:59, james wrote:
> On 12/06/2016 07:29 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 01:13:12PM -0500, james wrote:
>>> A while back, we we were promised an email channel for gentoo-proxy
>>> folks that did not get on well with IRC. It never materialized,
>> The mail alias proxy-maint@g.o (same alias as proxy-maintainers@)
>> has 22 people on it. It was created 2013/09/26.
>>
>> The list gentoo-proxy-maint@l.g.o was created 2016/05/29.
>> I don't see much usage of it, nobody has emailed since August.
>> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-proxy-maint/
>>
>> The request for it was filed and tracked here:
>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581370
>>
>> How exactly is that never materialized?
>>
>
>
> I subscribe on 6/23/2016::
>
> From:: gentoo-proxy-maint+help@l.g.o
>
> gentoo-proxy-maint+help@l.g.o
>
>
>
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> And here is the reply::
>
> gentoo-proxy-maint+confsub-nomail-75dc5ad5188e6314-garftd=verizon.net@l.g.o
>
>
> on 6/23/2016 10:21am
>
> .................................................
>
>
>
>
> So I just now sent email to :
> proxy-maint+subscribe@g.o
>
>
> NO answer on this attempt. ON this page::
> https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/mailing-lists/all-lists.html
>
> All I see is: gentoo-proxy-maint
>
> Am I subscribe?  Did I miss the exact syntax to get subscribed?
>
> Perhaps proxy-maint@g.o needs to be listed with the rest of
> the mailing lists?
>
>
>
> let's see if that one goes through (nothing after 10 minutes).
>
>
> My goal is to read that list and publish documents on what is exactly
> needed to get dev status. I think it's not a good idea to force folks
> to use irc to learn about proxy-maint, get help on ebuilds when you
> need it so there should be a nice set of document and tests one can
> work through, without intervention. Then take the quizes and be
> treated like an outcast for a while, before being able to work the
> portage tree. I am not interested in anything core to gentoo. I am
> extremely
> interested in building minimized cluster ebuilds and wrapping them up
> in stage-4s for ease of installation. Really, nothing threatening at all.
>
>
>
> I already finished up both quiz, including the second(exit) one, but
> there was a few question that were incomplete.
> That was all right befor Goktuk did his revision work, so I'd like to
> answer the updated quized, as most of the questions, when I answered,
> were not even up to EAPI-5. Where are the quiz questions.
>
>
> Oh yea, I emailed those quizes timely to one of the devs I was working
> with, and got no answer. (sorry, not going to identify that dev). So I
> prefer to answer the latest quizes; you guys can figure out who I
> should send those to.
>
>
>
>
>  I never got any mail from the list. I could see a few postings via
> gmane.org. Sure, gmane is mostly dysfunctional now.  I never saw or
> any information on the second list....
>
>
> James
>
With the creation of the Mentors project
(https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Mentors) a bit of clarification
has occurred to help prospective developers outside the IRC and/or
proxy-maintainers project). The Recruiters project page contains links
to the current quizzes (linked therein).

hth.