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On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:22:13PM +0000 or thereabouts, Martin Hajduch wrote: |
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> >Gentoo can't expect that all, or even a significant portion of users will |
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> >be commiting changes to the Portage tree. |
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I missed this original email, so I'd just like to say here that I disagree |
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(strongly) with this statement. We always have and always will expect our |
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users to contribute to our portage tree. |
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> i'm not accusing anyone, i'm just asking ... how can you expect people |
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> to eagerly submit new ebuilds when you don't show enough interest in them ? |
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It's not that we aren't interested, it's that there aren't enough of us |
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given the volume of packages in the tree. There are ~200 developers, at |
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least 50 of which never touch ebuilds in portage. (doc writers, security |
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folks, etc.) So, that leaves ~150 folks to manage 7300+ ebuilds. |
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That's why I had suggested earlier that we find some solution that makes |
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it easier for users to get an ebuild into portage. |
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--kurt |
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