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On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 20:35, Christopher Sachs wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> Bug #53524[1] has been open for nearly five months. It is a request to |
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> add the Slimserver[2] streaming music server into portage. Thus far |
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> the request has been completely ignored--though I'm sure not |
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> intentionally. Is there a policy for how to get a package into portage |
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> without bugging the entire gentoo-dev mailing list? This has been |
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> extremely frustrating for me as I have tried many different ways of |
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> getting people's attention. |
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Honestly, the best way is to get people's attention. Try getting people |
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using your ebuild. See if you can have people look at the ebuild for |
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correctness. Also, remember that things don't get added unless the |
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developer has time and is interested in keeping up with the package in |
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the future. Requests for having additional packages added to portage |
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are what we refer to as an "enhancement" request. These usually take a |
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*very* low priority in comparison to what I consider bugs, or actual |
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problems in an application or Gentoo that is causing broken behavior. |
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Sometimes the best way to get your package into Gentoo is to fix *other* |
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bugs that belong to the same herd/maintainer and submitting ebuilds to |
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those bugs. |
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All in all, the best advice is to have patience. Many herds are |
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horribly understaffed. At the same time, if a package doesn't seem |
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interesting to the person that would be doing the maintaining, sometimes |
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it just isn't added. We don't have developers in the thousands like |
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Debian, so we have to spend our time on things that interest us and |
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impact the most people. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Operations/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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Is your power animal a penguin? |
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