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Ben de Groot posted on Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:35:45 +0100 as excerpted: |
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> 2010/1/12 Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>: |
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>> If you feel like it, become a proxy-maintainer and poke a developer to |
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>> put your ebuilds on tree. Have you ever heard of that ? :) |
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> Proxy-maintainership should be given a MUCH higher profile in Gentoo, in |
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> my opinion. It is a virtually unknown option. |
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Yay! =:^) |
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> Another thing that works in my experience, but this is up to the |
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> herds/projects, is having an official overlay where devs and users can |
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> work closely together. |
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Again! =:^) |
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> But I also believe we need a better structure to handle |
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> maintainer-needed, maintainer-wanted and nominally maintained but |
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> ignored packages. Maybe we should form a team, which would be dedicated |
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> to take care of such things, and which would have a review policy for |
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> user submitted ebuilds and patches in bugzilla. A bit like treecleaners, |
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> but bringing life instead of death. What do you think? |
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Well, sunrise was supposed to be that for packages not yet in the tree. |
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The devs shepherding that work hard with the users doing the ebuilds to |
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get them up to tree quality, so they're ready for devs to take on with |
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little work (or to go into proxy maintainership), when it's that |
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package's time. I know I've used a handful of sunrise packages that |
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ultimately ended up in the tree, which is pretty good, considering I |
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don't even have the sunrise overlay enabled unless there's something I |
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specifically want from it. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |