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On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 01:01:20PM +0200, Christian Andreetta wrote: |
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> Many users (and I'm both a dev *and* a user) just could do much for |
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> Gentoo, but when you're interested in a niche sector package, you *don't |
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> have other choices* but |
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> 1) an endless wait for an open bug |
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> 2) becoming dev for the good of all :-) |
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> 3) just use your personal overlay, without sharing the results of your |
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> efforts. If the bug in 1) is still open, why updating it with your |
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> latest patches/revision bumps? |
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4) Bash devs to add your ebuild |
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5) Use proxy maintaining (as been suggested several times) |
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Proxy maintaining already happens but some people claims not enough |
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users and devs use this. Personally I'd love to see proxy maintaining |
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advertised which would probably help proxy maintaining take off and |
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offer a way for users to (fairly easy) contribute to the tree and be |
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sure their ebuilds ends up in the tree. |
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> Statistically you end up to 3). We just need something to reduce this |
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> "statistically". |
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See above. I'd love for more users to end up at 5). |
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Regards, |
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Bryan Østergaard |
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