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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 06:29:56PM +0200, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> Dear fellow developers, |
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> A new project is about to start so I am requesting your feedback |
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> The primary goal of the Proxy Maintainers[1] project is to create and maintain |
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> relationships between developers and users in order to ensure packages in the |
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> Gentoo tree stay up to date. This involves a few main tasks: |
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> 1) Should we use a new overlay? A new branch on sunrise? or work ebuilds in |
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> Gentoo bugzilla?I think the latter is the best |
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IMO, the best route would be to start with-in Gentoo Bugs, then slowly |
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move each contributor to a proxy-maintainer overlay. |
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This overlay would not have a review process for ebuilds, meaning that every |
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contributor that has passed the first stage (by submitting a few ebuilds in |
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bugzilla) will be granted access. |
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that way users will: |
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* get experience on actually committing stuff to a tree |
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* learn how to use tools like repoman and git (think of the future ;)) |
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it will also be better for us. moving packages from the overlay to tree |
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will be simpler, also tracking versions and package status will be |
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easier. |
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> 2) I think an email alias is not needed We can "monitor" maintainer-wanted/- |
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> needed alias if needed. What do you think? |
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If we go with the new overlay, I think we'll need an alias where the |
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users can ask for help and talk about their packages. |
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> 3) Maybe a new KEYWORD needs to be added on bugzilla so ppl get informed that |
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> the specific bug is already taking by another developer and that somebody is |
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> working on it. So marking a bug with a keyword e.g. "PROXY" might be useful. |
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Thats not a bad idea. |
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Another solution would be to assign the bugs to proxy-maintainers@g.o. |
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Alex Alexander :: wired |
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Gentoo Developer |
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