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On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 17:13 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> With the increase in developer and project overlays, I see the |
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> possibility for reducing work needed to maintain many packages. As |
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> Natanael Copa, it would be nice for him to be able to maintain packages |
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> without having CVS access. The idea of formalizing and promoting "proxy |
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> developers" has come up a few times before, and I think it is a great |
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> idea. Work is done in the overlays, tested, improved, then committed |
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> into the main tree once the kinks have been worked out. We get a |
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> stronger core tree with fewer "developers" and a better interaction with |
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> the community. |
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Some projects/herds already work this way with good results. We |
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regularly get contributions from users that go into our overlay, get |
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tested by us and other users and then get into the main portage tree |
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some time later. |
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We have a very low barrier to entry, it's just darcs record; darcs send. |
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Then one of the devs reviews and applies/rejects the patch. Easy. |
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For some of our ebuilds we already have de-facto "proxy developers". |
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Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell team lead) |
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email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org |
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