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On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 09:52 +0300, Alin Nastac wrote: |
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> Natanael Copa wrote: |
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> > Nobody has ever showed interest and I'm not pushing my services on |
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> > anyone. |
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> Why exactly you don't want to become a Gentoo dev? |
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Because of the byrocracy? Is it worth it to only maintain one single |
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package? |
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Because of gentoo devs always seems to fight? |
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> The whole "proxy maintainer" thing is a bunch of crap. |
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Thanks. |
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Seems to work just fine in freebsd ports. |
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> The Gentoo developer will still be |
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> expected to be responsible of his/her commits, which means 2 maintainers |
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> will spend (approximately) same amount of time testing it. |
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The Gentoo developer would have the final reposability, so yes, he/she |
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might need to test it. But if it doesn't work the Gentoo developer sends |
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an email to the (proxy) maintainer: "It doesn't work. Please fix or I |
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won't commit" or: "The code is too ugly. Please improve or I won't |
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commit". |
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The Gentoo dev can establish a relationship with the maintainer so after |
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a while he/she knows the (proxy) maintainer is trustable and can commit |
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after just a look. This in contrast to dealing with thousands unknown |
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bug reporters. |
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If the (proxy) maintainer doesn't answer, the gentoo dev can either fix |
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it himself/herself or find an new maintainer - which I believe is easier |
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than requiting a new dev, since it does not *feel* like as much |
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responsability, even if it is. |
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Its funny, I use gentoo much more that FreeBSD, I'm a freebsd port |
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maintainer, but nothing for Gentoo (well, im an active bugreporter...) |
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When I submit a fix/version bumb (I submit as "maintainer update") to |
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freebsd ports, its normally committed within hours, even if its not a |
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popular port. When I submit fixes for packages in Gentoo bugzilla it get |
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stuck for months. They must have done something right. |
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Natanael Copa |
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