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

[james]

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::

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on 6/23/2016 10:21am

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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