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On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 16:27:53 +0200 Yanestra wrote: |
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> On 04/12/2015 03:08 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: |
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> > Hi! I don't see such chaos :/ |
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> Maybe you can explain what this maintainer / proxy maintainer / Sunrise |
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> fuss is all about? |
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Maintainer is a Gentoo developers who maintains a package. |
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Proxy maintainer is a Gentoo developer who proxies user maintaining |
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a package. User is called a "proxied maintainer" in such case, that |
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is probably what you meant. |
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That is, if Gentoo user wants to help maintain a currently orphaned |
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package (i.e. a package without maintainer or an officially |
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maintained package, but suffering from serious issues where current |
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maintainer can't keep up with all bugs/updates and needs help), |
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he/she may maintain that package without becoming Gentoo developer, |
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for details see: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers |
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Sunrise is an overlay intended for user-submitted ebuilds reviewed |
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by developers. By its spirit it is somewhat similar to |
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proxy-maintainers project, but different in implementation and |
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review process. |
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There are other overlays available: some are official, some are |
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user-maintained, so you may ask for your own personal overlay as |
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well. |
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Official overlays are usually used for a dedicated projects with |
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narrow audience and/or as a staging grounds for packages before |
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they will enter main Gentoo tree. |
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And there is only one main Gentoo tree (also known as a "portage |
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tree" due to historical reasons). There are multiple protocols via |
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which this tree is available (cvs, rsync mirror, git mirror), but |
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tree is the same. |
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> I've never seen the page you mentioned about the recruiting process. |
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> Sounds strange. |
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Happy googling :) |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |
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