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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC/announcement] Reviewers project
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 11:10:16
Message-Id: 561A4384.2010301@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC/announcement] Reviewers project by Sven Vermeulen
1 On 10/11/2015 09:19 AM, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
2 >
3 > This is good news. There are quite a few developers that manage a small
4 > subset of packages while doing tremendous work for Gentoo within that
5 > community. For instance, they focus on particular deliverables in
6 > repositories which eventually get packaged, or on integration of certain
7 > components which have a strong, broader community coverage.
8 >
9 > These developers will certainly welcome any helping hand (even post-commit)
10 > in keeping packages of high quality.
11 >
12 > I hope you will also focus on the documentation side. Certain processes that
13 > we follow within Gentoo (for commits, for instance the Git workflow) would
14 > benefit from a good document *set* (yes, set, as you'll definitely want such
15 > processes to have both a single-screen version as well as an elaborate
16 > version).
17 >
18 > I've also found myself often looking for similar ebuilds in which a certain
19 > problem would already have been implemented. For instance, ebuilds with an
20 > optional python part using the python-r1 eclass. Do you think it is
21 > worthwhile to have a number of packages assigned as good examples?
22 >
23
24 Those are great ideas, unfortunately we currently don't have a wiki guru
25 in the team ;)