1 |
On 03/18/2010 05:29 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: |
2 |
> Dear fellow developers, |
3 |
> |
4 |
> A new project is about to start so I am requesting your feedback |
5 |
> |
6 |
> The primary goal of the Proxy Maintainers[1] project is to create and maintain |
7 |
> relationships between developers and users in order to ensure packages in the |
8 |
> Gentoo tree stay up to date. This involves a few main tasks: |
9 |
|
10 |
Also it is a nice idea, i dont think, it will help Gentoo in the longer term. As i can see with the |
11 |
Sunrise project, most users only want to get their ebuild initially into portage/sunrise. They also |
12 |
listen to suggestions, improve their code and read a document to get access. But in most cases, they |
13 |
only do the initial commit or initial commit+some version bumps before they leave again and the |
14 |
ebuild is unmaintained. |
15 |
I dont think, we want to proxy for those users, since this would result in either the proxy |
16 |
maintaining the ebuilds or many more maintainer-needed ebuild in main tree. |
17 |
The next group of users are those, who actively maintain their ebuild, also help other users and do |
18 |
this for a longer time. Usually those users get a mentor offer sooner or later and then become a |
19 |
Gentoo Developer. So for those users, who are willing to help and can do this for longer time |
20 |
(requirements for Gentoo devs), sunrise is already a good starting point and base to get in. |
21 |
The only case, where there might be a (minimal) profit are those rare users, who initially commit |
22 |
their ebuild and maintain exactly and only this ebuild for a longer time. There might be 2 or 3 |
23 |
users doing it this way, so creating just another project for this idea is imho a bit too much work |
24 |
for minimal profit. |
25 |
|
26 |
I think, it might be better to send the interested users so Sunrise, where they can learn the basics |
27 |
and afterwards you could still offer them to proxy the ebuild (sunrise has an extra branch for proxy |
28 |
maintainers). |
29 |
A much better idea is imho to make the idea and way of Sunrise more public and easier to see without |
30 |
searching (Homepage, FAQ, Forums), so interested users can find it easier. In addition, every dev, |
31 |
who is interested in proxy maintaining something can do this via Sunrise. |
32 |
|
33 |
|
34 |
|
35 |
-- |
36 |
Thomas Sachau |
37 |
|
38 |
Gentoo Linux Developer |