Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for co-maintainers for number of packages

[Alexey Sokolov]

07.07.2022 11:27, Martin Kletzander пишет:
> On Sun, Jul 03, 2022 at 09:03:04PM -0700, Georgy Yakovlev wrote:
>> I've been rather busy lately and can't keep up with all of my packages.
>> There are pending bumps, some bugs, but nothing too crazy or hard.
>> So I'm looking for someone to co-maintain (or even take over if you
>> insist) the following packages:
>>
>
> Noob question, I would have to be a Gentoo developer/maintainer to help
> with that, am I right?

Don't worry, proxied maintainers can easily (co-)maintain packages too.

>> * app-shells/fish
>> Responsive upstream, not very frequent releases, cmake. Requires some
>> attention on non-x86 as arch bugs are rather frequent. But nothing too
>> crazy.
>>
>
> Since I do not have any experience with official maintainership I would
> hesitate to commit to anything I am not a user of, but I do use fish and
> keep an eye on releases a bit (which I would do more, of course).
>
> [...]
>
>> PS. Huge bonus if you can test packages not only on x86_64.
>> Ofc I can help with some gotchas in packages and have no plans on
>> abandoning those completely, but realistically I'm not doing enough to
>> keep those properly maintained at the moment.
>>
>
> I can test that every now and then and even fix some possible issues,
> hopefully.
>
> Let me know if I can be of help or whether I should rather go through
> proxy maintainers or another route.

It's possible for a particular developer to be the proxy, and it's 
possible for p-m project to be proxies for the proxied maintainers.

>
> Have a nice day,
> Martin
>


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Best regards,
Alexey "DarthGandalf" Sokolov