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From: William Hubbs <kc5eiv@×××××××××××××.net>
To: Tony Clark <tclark@×××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds not getting in :(
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 16:23:24
Message-Id: 20030422162323.GA21428@kc5eiv.homeip.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds not getting in :( by Tony Clark
1 Hi all,
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3 I agree here. If there is a maintainer for an ebuild, anyone who wants another version of the ebuild in the system should be able to send it to the maintainer for the ebuild or file a bug that should be assigned to the maintainer. Otherwise things would get really confusing.
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5 William
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7 On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 06:14:31PM +0200, Tony Clark wrote:
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11 > On Tuesday 22 April 2003 18.00, Klavs Klavsen wrote:
12 > > On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 16:57, Peter Ruskin wrote:
13 > > > On Tuesday 22 Apr 2003 15:26, Dan Armak wrote:
14 > > > > The second will facilitate quick acceptance of user-submitted ebuilds
15 > > > > in some way - probably drawing upon the submitters in one way or
16 > > > > another.
17 > > >
18 > > > I'm more than willing to maintain ebuilds I submit.
19 > >
20 > > Same here. What are the requirements for being a maintainer?
21 > > I don't think one has to make the newest version available ASAP.
22 > > This f.ex. didn't happen with drip - which was why I created a new
23 > > version myself.
24 > >
25 > > I think people who submit ebuilds should automacally be added as
26 > > maintainer of the ebuild. If they contribute with a newer version of a
27 > > given ebuild - then they should be added as maintainer - keeping the old
28 > > maintainer too.
29 >
30 > Not too sure I agree with this. You need people to take some sort of
31 > ownership of the problem. If things don't get done then you can look at
32 > replacing them.
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