Re: [gentoo-dev] User-Submitted Ebuild Maintainer?

[Dan Armak]

On Thursday 24 April 2003 02:05, Evan Powers wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 April 2003 06:38 pm, Todd Berman wrote:
> > Is there someone in charge of looking at user-submitted ebuilds?
> ...
> > This seems like it might help get rid of part of the problem revolving
> > around ebuilds sitting in bugzilla and not being evaluated in any way.
>
> My understanding is that something like this is actually in the works.
>
> See Dan Armak's earlier post. { time="Tuesday 22 April 2003 10:26 am",
> subject="Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds not getting in :(" }
>
> Maybe you saw that but didn't read as far into it as I did. Perhaps Dan can
> clarify?

What I said was:
<quote>
The points you and other people make in this thread are known and acknowledged 
by us. We are busily working towards a setup that solves these problems. The 
first step is the upcoming (I hope) reorganization of the gentoo internal 
development model so that every ebuild has explicit maintainer(s). The second 
will facilitate quick acceptance of user-submitted ebuilds in some way - 
probably drawing upon the submitters in one way or another.

The implementation of this second step depends (imo) on the first, which is 
being busily discussed for the past week. Please give us time to put it into 
place before we move into the second phase, which is when user opinions/ideas 
will be heard properly.
<unquote>

I hope the "first step" of setting up explicit maintainerships, as well as 
reorganizing some other stuff, will begin to be implemented shortly (ie on a 
scale of days or at most a week or two). The second step isn't anything I'm 
involved in personally, rather people like George Shapovalov are. Anyway, it 
has been discussed several times in the past, and there may have been 
something like what you're suggesting - I'm no expert.

Reagrdless, your suggestion looks quite possibly workable to me. I'm going to 
forward it to -core to make sure all developers see it and the right ones 
respond.

About which - we're currently very busily discussing the -core vs. -dev issue 
(numerous msgs per hour on several threads) and by the looks of it so far we 
can probably expect a decision and some action RSN (tm).

-- 
Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux developer (KDE)
Matan, Israel
Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key