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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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> > |
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> Why exactly you don't want to become a Gentoo dev? The whole "proxy |
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> maintainer" thing is a bunch of crap. 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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Maybe he doesn't want to deal with the politics? Maybe he doesn't want |
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to deal with the flame wars? Maybe, he just wants his package in the |
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tree and hopes to find a developer who thinks the same? |
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Personally, I proxy maintain 3 packages. I don't actively *use* these |
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packages. In this case, I'm mostly just a "commit monkey" though I do |
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check the packages for things similarly to what is done by Arch Testers. |
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Now, I wouldn't take on a very large number of such packages, simply due |
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to my own time constraints. In this case, I proxy maintain for a former |
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Gentoo ebuild developer, so I have a strong level of trust that he knows |
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what he's doing. Even then, I still give them a once-over. It is so |
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little effort on my part to "maintain" the packages that, if I so chose, |
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I could probably proxy 100 of these. The brunt of the work, such as |
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keeping up with upstream, writing patches, etc. are done by the person |
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whom I proxy for, and not by me. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
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Gentoo Foundation |
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