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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ways for non devs to contribute (was KDE 3.2.3)
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 04:03:54
Message-Id: 20040710060346.69ecdb75@sven.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Ways for non devs to contribute (was KDE 3.2.3) by Andrew Cowie
1 On 07/10/04 Andrew Cowie wrote:
2
3 > The best I can come up with is a contribution system similar to
4 > voting:
5 >
6 > An infrastructure level change tied to Portage in which if someone
7 > builds something that is ~arch and finds that it is stable, then an
8 > email (gpg signed, perhaps, to avoid the usual spam issues?) gets
9 > fired off (on command, after user has had time to consider things) to
10 > some aggregator which keeps stats on ebuild versions. That way, a
11 > somewhat objective sense of progress and stability can be built up on
12 > a per ebuild (or perhaps, per version) basis.
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14 That's what gentoo-stats was/is about, not sure about the current status
15 though.
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17 Marius
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