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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 to put |
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> 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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Cheers, |
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Ben de Groot |
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Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) |
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