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On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:19:14 -0400 |
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Luis Francisco Araujo <araujo@g.o> wrote: |
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> The users explicitly compromise to (just to make it clear): [1,2,3,4] |
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People who participate in open projects like Gentoo come and go. What |
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happens if/when the proxy maintainer decides to leave? Who will take |
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care of the package? Maybe the mailing list could also be used to find |
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users to proxy maintain abandoned packages? |
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> I know there already exist some developers working as proxy, well, i |
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> appreciate if they got any comment or observation about this idea. This |
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> is just a way of giving some organization to this kind of cooperative |
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> mechanism at some degree. And an 'official' representation inside Gentoo |
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> if we agree with it. |
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I work with a user (Kai Huuhko) to maintain media-sound/quodlibet, |
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media-libs/mutagen, and media-plugins/quodlibet-*. I have a dev overlay |
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on overlays.gentoo.org where Kai and I both have commit access. We both |
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work on the ebuilds in the overylay and exchange ideas over e-mail. |
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After the ebuilds are complete and tested, I commit them to the official |
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tree. Kia helps with bugs too. So far it has worked very well for us |
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and we haven't had any problems with the arrangement. Having a helper |
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saves me time and energy, which allows me do other Gentoo related tasks. |
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-Thomas |
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