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Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: |
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> > It's not a "normal" overlay as I see it. You've promoted it to be an |
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> > official overlay. The difference is huge in my opinion. |
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Well partly you're right. As it is promoted that way it is a bit more |
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official but anyway still an overlay. |
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> > Will you also review the code each and every ebuild pull down over the |
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> > internet? |
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Well at least briefly. We decided to maintain it in an official way and |
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thus keep an eye on the quality of the checkins. As said, at least a |
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briefly view at it and also a repoman scan. |
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We're going to have some contributors at it so it wouldn't be an easy |
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job but I think we can get some more of them that way. |
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Searched my inbox and found a mail saying this: |
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"He was trying to recruit me as a Gentoo developer. Unfortunately, I |
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turned him down, the main reason being time. Also, I don't really |
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need/want the status/powers/responsibilities that come with being a |
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developer, so that was another reason. |
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He then suggested that I become an arch-tester, or maybe contribute to |
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this public overlay that you have in mind. The arch-tester position |
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didn't seem that appealing to me. The public overlay on the other hand |
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is more suitable for me. I like to write the occasional ebuild and there |
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are some ebuilds writen by me in Bugzilla that are currently assigned to |
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maintainer-wanted so getting these in an overlay would be nice. Also, I |
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would assume that the barrier of entry and time requirements are lower |
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than the developer position. |
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Sounds he likes to contribute / maintain some apps, just not the whole |
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thing you have to do when being a full dev. But he expressed his |
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interest in this as a possible entry point. So I guess we can keep an |
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eye on him... |
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But one thing is important: As the project has some overlay nature, |
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there _may_ be the one or other small issue with it. On the other hand |
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what ebuild is 100% bugfree? ;) QA would have nothing todo then... And |
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here we don't break the (stable) tree if some really nasty issue ever |
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slips through our fingers. |
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Greetz, |
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Jokey |
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