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On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 08:31:32PM +1300, Alistair Bush wrote: |
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> > > ps. I would like the packages to be specifically for gentoo, but there |
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> > > are exceptions to this. as an example openrc (and even paludis to a |
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> > > degree). If you think that there is a package not specifically |
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> > > targetting gentoo that deserves a mention please make it clear why. |
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> > I'm a bit torn by this proposal; on the one hand, a shout out is nice- |
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> > from a career angle it certainly would've been useful for getting |
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> > some attention/exposure when I first was starting out. |
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> Not really my aim. Im not planning on listing ppl, just there work. Might |
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> not even put a url pointing to it. |
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Ok, that clarifies things a bit- I initially misinterpreted your |
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proposal as more then an external contributors list. |
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> Currently I am taking this from Mon, 29 March 19:42 NZ DST. So pkgcore is |
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> external, and you are a community member so your in the list. I don't want |
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> to bring a whole pile of history into it. Will pkgcore have its own gentoo |
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> project, or be considered as part of a gentoo project? Im guessing not |
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> anyway. |
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Honestly hadn't thought about pkgcore's status in reference to my |
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regaining +w, so I'd assume it'll remain status quo- externally |
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hosted. |
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> ps. I must say that its a little sad that so far there has been much more |
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> effort put into nitpicking than actually populating the list (working towards |
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> the goal). Which sums up gentoo pretty much. So lets highlight this part a |
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> little more |
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Note I'm generally overly specific, intent isn't to rip your proposal |
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to tiny little shreds - I actually like the idea, it just didn't seem |
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clear if the idea was to focus was on interesting packages and what |
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they do (regardless of dev/non-dev origin) or if your intent was to |
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focus on non-dev contributions. |
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I'm *personally* more interested in the former (I like reading about |
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cool projects, regardless of who created it), but your intent seems |
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more the latter, which is fair enough since you'll be the one doing |
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the work. |
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additions to your list: |
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* porthole (Brian Dolbec) |
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* cfg-update (nfc who wrote it, but it was at least at one point a |
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reasonably common alternative to etc-update) |
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* deltup: John J. Whitney, the infra. is maintained on |
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gentooexperimental by blackace. Notable mainly since it's the only |
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working delta compression setup for distfiles.. still active last I |
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knew, also. |
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Those are just a couple of the portage ones I can think of at this |
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hour- will update w/ more as I get time |
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cheers- |
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~harring |
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