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Am Sonntag, 12. April 2015, 16:27:53 schrieb Yanestra: |
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> Maybe you can explain what this maintainer / proxy maintainer / Sunrise |
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> fuss is all about? |
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Mostly ways of getting involved for people who are new to Gentoo. Attempts to |
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"make the initial step easier". The number of such attempts has exploded |
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recently, and it tends to get confusing. |
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* Proxy-maintainership means "you take care of some ebuilds, and a developer |
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commits the stuff for you". Which is good for the start, but in the end it |
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just generates double work, so if you're serious about contributing more, |
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becoming a full dev over time is the way to go. |
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* Sunrise is an overlay for user contributions, with rather strict review and |
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QA guidelines, and a good place to learn how to write ebuilds. Due to limited |
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manpower it is sadly a bit inactive right now. |
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While this is all very nice, the main thing for becoming developer is 1) find |
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a way to contribute (i.e. something that interests you), 2) find a mentor |
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(ideally with related interests). |
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> There are apparently several different portage source repositories, |
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> basing on different software, and furthermore, there is layman. As far |
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> as I remember, portage is stored in cvs, where there is also git, and |
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> somewhere subversion seems to linger. |
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There is one main and official portage tree. Or in newspeak, the Gentoo |
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repository. You know, the thing that goes into /usr/portage. It sadly still |
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lives on cvs. That may change in the future. |
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Overlays are add-on repositories which add more ebuilds. They can use any sort |
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of version control system you like, be maintained by just about everyone and |
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have any or no quality control guidelines at all. |
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Don't believe any of the stuff you hear about Gentoo decentralization. Just |
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because someone makes a lot of noise doesn't necessarily mean it'll have any |
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impact. |
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> And there is lots of documentation that appears to be outdated or |
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> strangely unattached to questions concerning organisation and overall |
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> structure. |
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> Do there exist something like quality guidelines for ebuilds? |
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> Why is there such a chaos? |
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Much documentation is being reorganized at the moment. You should start with |
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the main website. Anything in the "Project:" namespace of the wiki is also |
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official. |
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Otherwise, Pacho already mentioned the most important page. |
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https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/become-developer/ |
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Cheers, |
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Andreas |
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- -- |
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Andreas K. Huettel |
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Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice) |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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http://www.akhuettel.de/ |
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