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On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 02:13:34PM +0200, hasufell wrote: |
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>> On 09/15/2015 02:00 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: |
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>> > If you have interest in this package then you can do one or more of: |
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>> > * become a Gentoo developer (ha-ha) |
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>> hmm |
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> For background, SGW did work on becoming a developer once before, but he |
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> mainly found he was short on time to handle more than the packages that |
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> he had a business interest in. |
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> I used to proxy-commit changes from him to the Amanda package, but found |
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> myself short on time to test them as well in the long run. |
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To be constructive, a github pull-request is probably the most |
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effective way to get a proxy maintainer to notice your work right now |
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and commit it for you. Bugs assigned to proxy-maintainers@ might also |
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work. Believe it or not people will actually use ebuilds you attach |
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whether or not they get into the tree. Another option is to publish |
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your own overlay, and that makes a good foundation for a pull-request |
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anyway and it is easy to use for those who do want to use the overlay |
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directly. |
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And do consider signing up as a proxied maintainer for a package |
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you're interested in. If you do establish a long-term relationship |
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with a package it probably will make devs more willing to commit your |
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changes without a lot of testing on their part. |
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Rich |
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