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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: Peter Volkov <pva@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-devhelp@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-devhelp] ebuild maintainers
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:20:25
Message-Id: b41005390801271320r2431c28ft52e35675c8a17586@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-devhelp] ebuild maintainers by Peter Volkov
1 On 1/27/08, Peter Volkov <pva@g.o> wrote:
2 > ÷ ÷ÓË, 27/01/2008 × 20:13 +0100, Thomas Kahle ÐÉÛÅÔ:
3 > > my freshly submitter ebuild
4 > > (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207033) is now in the maintainer
5 > > wanted state. How does the story continue?
6 > > Can I become the Maintainer, or only Devs?
7 > > If this is the case, can I assist someone? What can I do to get this
8 > > into the tree?
9 >
10 > Only developers commit ebuilds to the tree hence if there will be no
11 > developer interested in this package the bug will stay as is.
12 >
13 > You can maintain ebuild either attaching updates to the bug or at
14 > sunrise overlay[1]. Of course it's possible for you to become developer
15 > [2] but this requires more efforts on your side.
16 >
17 > [1] http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/wiki
18 > [2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1&chap=2
19 >
20
21 There are developers who will commit for you, but I am unsure how to
22 find them (proxy-maint@g.o just goes to masterdriverz and he
23 isn't the only guy doing it).
24
25 > --
26 > Peter.
27 >
28 >

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Re: [gentoo-devhelp] ebuild maintainers George Shapovalov <george@g.o>