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On Monday 31 July 2006 04:28, Dan Meltzer wrote: |
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> I do not see why it is considdered hard for users to "get involved". |
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> Users have at least two choices that I can think of right now, and |
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> probably a number that I cannot think of. |
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> 1) Users can submit patches/ideas to bugs.g.o at whatever frequency |
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> they desire, contributing to gentoo casually. |
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And the patch hanging in bugzilla forever because no-one wants to maintain it. |
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Sunrise could help here, by accepting properly written ebuilds that do |
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however not get maintenance. Sunrise should not really be about replacing |
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current ebuilds, but offering some support for those packages that are useful |
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for some, but that do not have enough usage that a developer wants to put it |
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into the tree. |
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> 2) Users can take the quizzes and become a developer, I do not see why |
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> two quizzes is considdered an insurmountable task, the quizzes are |
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> specifically designed to ensure that people writing ebuilds understand |
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> what ebuilds can contain and what they cannot, I could not imagine a |
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> user wanting to install a package from an ebuild written by someone |
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> that does not know this. |
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They first need to be invited to start the whole process. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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