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From: Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Becoming a Gentoo developer?
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 22:50:50
Message-Id: CAATnKFAtu1ZmWmS5hbYXFdGikZ=oJT8fG4j0-+M0Y7d5LNndNg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Becoming a Gentoo developer? by Bob Wya
1 On 17 April 2015 at 02:22, Bob Wya <bob.mt.wya@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > Are you maintaining an overlay listed in Layman? If not then it's pretty
4 > obvious that
5 > you're just trolling the mailing list and wasting a lot of folk's time...
6 >
7
8
9 I'm not sure that's the case. Its easy enough to maintain an overlay. Its
10 easy enough to get yourself into the primary permission bits to be major
11 contributor to an overlay listed in layman.
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13 But that doesn't really make you a useful gentoo developer, its just a
14 stepping stone.
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16 The barrier to entry to making useful changes to the CVS tree is presently
17 several orders of magnitude more daunting than contributing to an overlay.
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20 --
21 Kent
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23 *KENTNL* - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL

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