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On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 08:49:31AM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> On Monday 31 July 2006 14:53, Bryan Ãstergaard wrote: |
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> > On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 01:01:20PM +0200, Christian Andreetta wrote: |
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> > > Many users (and I'm both a dev *and* a user) just could do much for |
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> > > Gentoo, but when you're interested in a niche sector package, you *don't |
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> > > have other choices* but |
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> > > |
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> > > 1) an endless wait for an open bug |
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> > > 2) becoming dev for the good of all :-) |
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> > > 3) just use your personal overlay, without sharing the results of your |
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> > > efforts. If the bug in 1) is still open, why updating it with your |
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> > > latest patches/revision bumps? |
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> > |
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> > 4) Bash devs to add your ebuild |
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> Which one exactly. The point is that it is not on a dev's turf. |
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Many ebuilds sitting in bugzie naturally falls under one herd or |
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another. And if you can't find any developer that should (likely) be |
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maintaining the ebuild you can always ask in the irc channels geared |
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towards users (#gentoo-bugs, #gentoo-dev-help, even #gentoo) or ask on |
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gentoo-dev ML. Lots of ways to get developers attentions imo. |
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Regards, |
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Bryan Østergaard |
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