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On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:35:45 +0100 |
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Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote: |
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> 2010/1/12 Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>: |
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> > If you feel like it, become a proxy-maintainer and poke a developer |
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> > to put your ebuilds on tree. Have you ever heard of that ? :) |
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> Proxy-maintainership should be given a MUCH higher profile in Gentoo, |
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> in my opinion. It is a virtually unknown option. |
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> Another thing that works in my experience, but this is up to the |
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> herds/projects, is having an official overlay where devs and users can |
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> work closely together. This allows users to commit ebuilds and |
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> patches, while there is quality control by the involved devs. Devs can |
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> keep an eye on such overlays and move stuff to portage when they are |
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> ready. Sunrise is the most obvious example for this, for |
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> maintainer-wanted packages. But it works equally well for us in the Qt |
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> project with qting-edge, and I believe kde and pro-audio have the same |
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> experience. |
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> But I also believe we need a better structure to handle |
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> maintainer-needed, maintainer-wanted and nominally maintained but |
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> ignored packages. Maybe we should form a team, which would be |
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> dedicated to take care of such things, and which would have a review |
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> policy for user submitted ebuilds and patches in bugzilla. A bit like |
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> treecleaners, but bringing life instead of death. What do you think? |
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I agree with the creation of a maintainer-needed team, but to be |
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honest, all those packages ended in maintainer-needed by lack of |
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manpower. |
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Even with the manpower problem, there are people helping with those |
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packages, such as Patrick, Samuli, Diego and myself. |
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I am in the maintainer-needed CC so I always try to commit patches and |
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do fixes to those packages, although lately I have not had much time |
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available. So, if anyone have a patch for a maintainer-needed package, |
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feel free to ping me :) |
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VĂctor |