Re: [gentoo-dev] How can I get the ebuild I wrote noticed by someone(maybe developer)?

[Richard Freeman]

Shaochun Wang wrote:
> I wrote an ebuild games-misc/llk_linux-2.3 and uploaded it on bugzilla
> of gentoo on Mar 2007. After one year, this ebuild still just stays on
> bugzilla. I don't know whether someone used it or not. How can I found
> this type of information from bugzilla?
>

The difficulty is that for a dev to commit this to portage is 
essentially a commitment to continue to maintain it.  For this reason, 
obscure packages may be harder to get into the tree.

You might consider looking into gentoo sunrise, which is designed to 
allow ebuild contributors to get packages into a semi-official overlay 
with a lower threshold of entry, but with some QA.

You can find info on this project at:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/sunrise/

Alternatively, your best bet for getting something into portage is to 
ask nicely on this list, or in the forums, or on irc.  It doesn't always 
work, and this is more-or-less by design.  The goal is to have a high 
level of QA for packages in portage, and that means that nothing can 
really get into the tree unless somebody is willing to commit to 
maintaining it.  Overlays like sunrise are a good way to allow users to 
still have packages while lowering the barrier to entry and getting more 
participation.

The hope is also that some who participate in sunrise might even go on 
to be full-fledged developers, and packages that get a lot of attention 
in sunrise might eventually move to the main tree.

I hope this information helps you a little.  I actually have nothing at 
all to do with sunrise, but I know those involved in this project have 
been trying to promote it.  One thing I like about sunrise is that it 
helps address one of the biggest gentoo user complaints - that gentoo 
makes it hard to get involved.
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