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matt mooney posted on Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:40:55 -0700 as excerpted: |
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> I would possibly be interested in maintaining mc. I am not a current |
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> gentoo developer, but I have been trying to get involved recently. Is |
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> there anyway I could help out? Or is this only for current gentoo |
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> developers. |
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Hi, Matt, |
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I'm just a user (both Gentoo and mc) too. A gentoo-dev needs to be the |
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committing maintainer, but there's what's called a proxy maintainer setup |
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as well. |
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If you're interested in being the user maintainer while he's the proxy, |
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contact Alex A (aka and gentoo email wired@), who appears to have taken |
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it. The way that works is that you'd work in partnership with him, |
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probably grabbing any version bumps and testing them, making any ebuild |
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and patch changes necessary, and then forwarding it to wired to actually |
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make the commit. That saves him time to work on other packages, and may |
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well get new mc versions in the tree much faster, especially if you |
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follow upstream closely and he doesn't. |
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That's a great way to learn the ins and outs of Gentoo and work toward |
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general Gentoo devhood as well, if you're interested. If not, you can |
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simply continue user-maintaining the single package you are interested |
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in. Either way, it benefits both Gentoo and other users (like me) of the |
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package. |
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Of course, that's all conditional on you and he forging a good working |
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relationship, but most devs won't complain about being offered some help. |
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=:^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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