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> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:05:45PM -0800, Robert Cole wrote: |
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> > I would like to start creating ebuilds for products and maintaining them |
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> but |
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> > I'm a little concerned that my contributions won't be accepted. Will I |
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> be |
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> > wasting my time asking to be a maintainer for a couple of ebuilds I |
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> create |
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> > and get them in the tree? |
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> Generally, when someone asks, my response is an automatic no. |
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> Prove yourself and you'll be picked up as a dev. |
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Sorry, this seems a bit elitist. :( |
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> Jon Portnoy |
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> avenj/irc.freenode.net |
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Avenj, as I recently was interested in submitting ebuilds myself. Could we |
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possibly come up with a quick and easy system for devs to pop in, check a |
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list of submitted ebuilds, grab ones that look interesting to them, test to |
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see if they build/self-destruct, mark them as ~ARCH (for ARCH they can test |
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on), either clear the initial listing and slap them into the tree or kick it |
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back to the user? |
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Personally, I found it to be a pain in the rear to see 1 1/2 yr old ebuilds |
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relating to the packages I was developing ebuilds for in bugzilla, yet with |
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information so stale as to be stinking the place up. I think that there are |
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a lot of things that could be offered to Gentoo users without too much |
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hassle by other Gentoo users as long as dev says "ok, that sounds fun." I |
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mean, I got passed back and forth from hardened to general and back a few |
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times and it was all because the devs reviewing my bug(s) didn't understand |
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the packages. |
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I may not know C/C++ very well (minimal understanding at most), so I |
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wouldn't be able to "fix" something that was broken via diff, but I sure as |
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heck have the computing power to do 100s of compiles :-D and thoroughly test |
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certain things before I put them live on my OWN production machines. |
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Basically, I'm not a programmer, but I can *still* write a darned good |
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ebuild with the proper help (thx Spyderous, obz and others in #gentoo-dev). |
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Simply because I can't program, I can't be a dev... does that mean I can't |
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do thorough package mangling/testing? Not really... In fact, I've been told, |
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that with most things, if anyone can break it, I can :-D |
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Basically, I just find that the entire ebuild submission process could |
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definitely be streamlined as to take less dev time and be more rewarding for |
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the users actually doing the submissions. Including having user response |
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saying, "hey, so and so just bumped package-x.y.y to package-x.y.z and it |
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builds fine with a renamed and digested ebuild." |
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That's my 2/100ths of a monetary unit. |
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Allen Parker |
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infowolfe on irc.freenode.net |
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