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On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 05:08:29PM +0200, Natanael Copa wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 15:47 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:39:50 +0200 Natanael Copa |
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> > <natanael.copa@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > | I'm initially only interested in maintaining packages where I'm the |
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> > | upstream maintainer as well. |
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> > Ick. Rarely a good idea. That removes a layer of QA. |
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> ok. whatever... |
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> so, I have learned alot today. |
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> * I can't become a proxy maintainer. (you guys will continue your |
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> "fight" if its a good or bad idea having proxy maintainers and meanwhile |
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> nothing will happen) |
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Yes you can. I'm a fan of proxy maintaining and would be happy to proxy |
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commits for you. Please poke me on irc.freenode.net (nick kloeri). |
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> * It's a bad idea for me to become a dev since I only want to maintain |
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> stuff I know I will be able to maintain. (I cant start small and take |
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> more and more packages over time, when/if I feel I'm able to do more) |
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Devs only maintaining one or two packages rarely get the needed |
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experience to maintain a high QA imo. I think proxy maintaining in those |
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cases are a much better idea. |
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> That leaves me with the conclution that its best to just continue to run |
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> my own local portage tree and submit bugreports once in a while and hope |
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> for the best, just like I have always been doing. |
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See above. |
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Regards, |
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Bryan Østergaard |
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