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On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 19:48 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> What exact time constraints and responsibilities are people afraid of? |
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> Are those concerns real or just myths? |
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As someone who just sent in the quiz, yes its real concerns. What scared |
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me off mostly is the gentoo politics. The entire process to become a |
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"gentoo developer" is a scare off. Took me weeks to complete the quiz. I |
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want to help, yes, but I do have a life. |
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> > A formal proxy-maintainer could really help in our sometimes blind |
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> > maintaining duties. |
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> What would be the difference between a "formal proxy-maintainer" and |
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> how we handle it currently? |
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It's documented? I hardly know it was possible. I have heard the term |
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proxy maintainer a few time and offerend to become one without beeing |
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100% what it was. I talked about to become a dev only to be able to |
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maintain a handful ebuilds but was even recommended to not do that due |
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to QA issues. That kind of turned me off [1]. |
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At the same time I go the offer to maintain a package in FreeBSD. I said |
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yes because it was very simple. So I have been a freebsd ports |
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maintainer for years, while it took me years to actually take the step |
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to fill in the quiz, even if i run gentoo on desktop and run my own |
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distro based on Gentoo. |
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I'd probably not do the quiz again but I'd be more than happy to |
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maintain a few packages. |
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> Marius |
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-nc |
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[1]http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@l.g.o/msg15926.html |
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PS. The entire thread is kind of interesting to read. |
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