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While I too might have some interest in developing particularly the scientific |
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packages, Donnie's comment made me to wonder whether the idea of "support teams" |
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(cf. arch testers) was buried? |
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I think this idea that was mentioned in the previous thread would be especially |
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suitable for the sci-team and its packages that often require, besides the normal |
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ebuild practices, some special expertise to carry out full runtime testing. Or would |
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these teams just mean extra work for the actual developers? Will a presumably small |
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community using the scientific packages need this kind of an extra layer? |
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Perhaps these "support teams" would also narrow the (assumed) threshold of |
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participating in the overlay. (I see that "herd testers" are mentioned in the |
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overlay, but as a long-time Gentoo user I have no knowledge what these testers are; |
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this also demonstrates the little obscurity that surrounds all overlays from an |
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end-user perspective.) |
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Regards, |
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Jukka Ruohonen. |
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> > So what could we do to get more help: call for new recruits, convince |
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> > more devs to join the sci herd, get proxied packages, more overlay |
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> > maintainers? (in the past, there was a similar thread [1]). I could |
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> > train a new dev in anyone interested, I would have more time in 2 weeks. |
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> Just a cautionary note: |
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> However much we might be able to use the extra help, we need to make |
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> sure to keep our developer standards high. |
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> I think a good way to start is to make the overlay an "accepted" |
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> solution for where to keep packages. Get more people participating in |
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> the overlay, and even be willing to move packages from the main tree to |
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> the overlay if there's non-devs willing to help with things that are |
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> poorly maintained. |
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> The overlay worked great to get you to join. =) |
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> Thanks, |
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> Donnie |
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