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On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:07:37 +0000 Daniel Drake <dsd@g.o> wrote: |
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| One of the bigger problems is that we have a huge user community who |
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| are keen on contributing, but we have such a high barrier for entry |
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| to the developer community. Quite rightly so - we're dealing with a |
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| live tree, so we can't give out commit access on the street. |
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A relatively easy way of lowering that barrier would be to provide |
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good, up to date, example-oriented ebuild writing documentation. |
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There's too much stuff that people need to know to write ebuilds that's |
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not written down anywhere -- this not only makes it harder for users to |
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write good ebuilds, but also leads to some of them being dissuaded when |
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they're told that the only way to know what's policy is by having paid |
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attention on the mailing lists for the past five years. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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