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I hate to ask any more of the Gentoo developers' time, but perhaps we |
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can take a page from FreeBSD: folks interested in becoming developers |
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(even just for the ports tree) have to go through a tutelage period |
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where all the changes they would like to make have to be approved and |
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committed by an experienced developer for a certain amount of time |
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before the new developer gets his or her commit bits. This could help |
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alleviate some of the stress of becoming a package maintainer (writing |
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ebuilds, etc.) w/o your work falling into the black hole that Bugzilla |
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often becomes. |
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Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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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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