Re: [gentoo-dev] participating in gentoo

[Joachim Blaabjerg]

Hi David!

How is LIDS going? Still in Debian? =)

On Tuesday 22 October 2002 18:54, David Spreen wrote:
> Hey there,
> is it possible to become a part of the project to fix bugs in
> packages, process .ebuilds from the bts (and upload own ones)?

BTS = Bug Tracking System? Anyone can submit/fix/comment on (etc.) bugs in 
http://bugs.gentoo.org. The easiest way to get started, is just signing up 
(if you haven't do so already) and start checking out bugs. 

> I read about cvs access for that purpose in the portage users
> manual. How does it work? What do I have to proceed?

I believe anonymous CVS access has been unavailable for a while, and I have no 
idea when (or if) it's coming back up. Mind you, this is not an official 
statement.

> I'd like to contribute to the project, cause I think about
> the long time an ebuild takes to get into the repo to be
> one of the most important disadvantages of gentoo linux.

Contributions are always welcome! CVS write access is at this time restricted 
to developers, though (AFAIK). The main reason for the long waiting time of 
new ebuilds at the moment, is the current freeze prior to the 1.4 release.

> thanks for your help,

Best Regards,