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On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 00:00 +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 17:13 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > With the increase in developer and project overlays, I see the |
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> > possibility for reducing work needed to maintain many packages. As |
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> > Natanael Copa, it would be nice for him to be able to maintain packages |
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> > without having CVS access. The idea of formalizing and promoting "proxy |
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> > developers" has come up a few times before, and I think it is a great |
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> > idea. Work is done in the overlays, tested, improved, then committed |
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> > into the main tree once the kinks have been worked out. We get a |
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> > stronger core tree with fewer "developers" and a better interaction with |
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> > the community. |
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> Some projects/herds already work this way with good results. We |
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> regularly get contributions from users that go into our overlay, get |
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> tested by us and other users and then get into the main portage tree |
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> some time later. |
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> We have a very low barrier to entry, it's just darcs record; darcs send. |
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> Then one of the devs reviews and applies/rejects the patch. Easy. |
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If the "proxy maintainer" is specified as contact person in the ebuild, |
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and will be added to the CC list on bugs posted, the official developer |
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will not need to care about it until he gets a response from the proxy |
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developer. |
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> For some of our ebuilds we already have de-facto "proxy developers". |
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If it would be possible to become a proxy developer, I'd be maintainer |
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for several packages. Its not the first time I'm offering that: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76213#c2 |
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Nobody has ever showed interest and I'm not pushing my services on |
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anyone. |
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But I'd like to do official portage and not any overlay. I have |
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submitted ebuilds to bugzilla that ended up in an overlay somehwere (bug |
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got closed) and has dissapeared for ever. I can't post bugs about |
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overlays in bugzilla, (I suppose) so no updated ebuild have been |
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submitted and I ended up just running my own local overlay. |
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Natanael Copa |
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