Re: [gentoo-dev] Voting on adding Leechcraft to the tree

[Jeremy Olexa]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:05:54 +0400, Maxim Koltsov wrote:
> Hi devs,
> I got a request to add Leechcraft (http://leechcraft.org/) to the
> portage tree. Leechcraft is modular internet client with many
> plugins.
> Main problem with it is that it has very few (less than 5, i suppose)
> active maintainers, and is needed by very limited amount of users
> (mainly friends of project lead). So, i want to use gentoo-dev ML as
> tool to 1) advert Leechcraft to larger audience and 2) ask Gentoo
> developers and users: is it worth to be in tree?
> If there are 5 votes for Leechcraft and no unfixable complaints from
> other devs, i will start adding Leechcraft to tree.
> Here you can see existing ebuilds and other info:
> http://code.google.com/p/rion-overlay/source/browse/#hg%2Fnet-misc
>
> http://code.google.com/p/rion-overlay/source/browse/eclass/leechcraft.eclass
> Contacts of the project lead and supposed package maintaner in gentoo
> (with me as proxy): d34df00d@××××××.ru (XMPP).

There are no restrictions based on "popularity" of a package being 
added to the portage tree. As a matter of fact, if even only you, 
yourself, used the package it is still valid to add to the tree provided 
someone is adequately maintaining it. You do get that privilege as a 
Gentoo Developer - the meta-distro is yours.

-Jeremy