Re: [gentoo-dev] www-apps/otrs: needs new maintainer

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 2015-09-16 um 02:37 schrieb Rich Freeman:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 02:13:34PM +0200, hasufell wrote:
>>> On 09/15/2015 02:00 PM, Peter Stuge wrote:
>>>> If you have interest in this package then you can do one or more of:
>>>> * become a Gentoo developer (ha-ha)
>>> hmm
>> For background, SGW did work on becoming a developer once before, but he
>> mainly found he was short on time to handle more than the packages that
>> he had a business interest in.
>>
>> I used to proxy-commit changes from him to the Amanda package, but found
>> myself short on time to test them as well in the long run.
>>
>
> To be constructive, a github pull-request is probably the most
> effective way to get a proxy maintainer to notice your work right now
> and commit it for you.  Bugs assigned to proxy-maintainers@ might also
> work.  Believe it or not people will actually use ebuilds you attach
> whether or not they get into the tree.  Another option is to publish
> your own overlay, and that makes a good foundation for a pull-request
> anyway and it is easy to use for those who do want to use the overlay
> directly.

Well, my ebuilds for www-apps/otrs are in here already:

https://github.com/stefangweichinger/gentoo-overlay/tree/master/www-apps/otrs

(the other packages in that overlay aren't that up to date ... simply
some work collected over the years)

I only added beta4 yesterday.

> And do consider signing up as a proxied maintainer for a package
> you're interested in.  If you do establish a long-term relationship
> with a package it probably will make devs more willing to commit your
> changes without a lot of testing on their part.

I may do that if something gets moving around this package, yes.
Where would I have to sign up?

I am a proxied maintainer for app-backup/amanda already, as Robin mentioned.