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On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 09:58:30AM -0400, Peter Hyman wrote: |
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> In addition, I and others have contributed ebuilds for consideration, |
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> and they continue to languish or are assigned to the maintainer-wanted |
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> alias. I have offered to produce ebuilds for review and submission. I |
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> was told I needed to become a developer. While I would be happy to take |
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> on the responsibility, I don't see why it would be necessary. The |
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> ebuilds are already there for you. Just search ROX in bugzilla. I don't |
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> need my name on it. However, I do feel strongly that if you are going to |
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> offer a package suite in portage, you have an obligation to keep it |
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> current -- ESPECIALLY when the user community is doing the work already. |
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> No one is asking for any special work to be done -- just that bugs are |
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> responded to and handled. |
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If bugs are not handled in a timely manner, it is because we're |
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shorthanded. This is also the reason new ebuilds are often assigned to |
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maintainer-wanted. We'd rather not add packages to portage if there is |
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no developer to pick up maintenance for them. Remember that we are all |
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investing our spare time to work on Gentoo, we're not getting paid. |
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We'd rather focus on removing bugs from packages already in portage than |
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on adding new packages. |
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Also for some packages it is hard to find a maintainer because it is |
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best if the maintainer is also an active user of the package. If a |
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relatively small group of people uses a package, it's much harder to |
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find a suitable maintainer. |
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If you see an area that could use an extra developer working on it and |
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you think you could be that developer, by all means apply for the |
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position. |
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Here are some links of interest: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/staffing-needs/index.xml |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1&chap=2 |
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Regards, |
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Maurice. |
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Maurice van der Pot |
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Gentoo Linux Developer griffon26@g.o http://www.gentoo.org |
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Creator of BiteMe! griffon26@××××××××.com http://www.kfk4ever.com |
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