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From: Alessandro Barbieri <lssndrbarbieri@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about gentoo-sources kernel release versions
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 12:41:23
Message-Id: CACfyCdVvadLGgfEHkWfF66TSF41GRuCVnpk66sXRw3Ydd+HP6A@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about gentoo-sources kernel release versions by james
1 Il Lun 10 Feb 2020, 03:08 james <garftd@×××××××.net> ha scritto:
2
3 > On 2/9/20 7:26 PM, Michael Jones wrote:
4 > >
5 > >
6 > > On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 5:55 PM james <garftd@×××××××.net
7 > > <mailto:garftd@×××××××.net>> wrote:
8 > >
9 > > Sure the many of the wonderful folks that visit gentoo-user would
10 > > participate, just a little bit?
11 > >
12 > >
13 > > I would be willing to help.
14 > >
15 > > However, if left to my own devices, I would just close anything with no
16 > > activity for 10 years, and remind the cc list of anything with no
17 > > activity for 5 years of the bug as the first thing I did.
18 > >
19 > > So any effort that I participate in to try to improve that is going to
20 > > need the Gentoo developers to give clear instructions on how they want
21 > > the project to go.
22 >
23 >
24 > Fair enough. Regular gentoo code (ebuild) issues are more straightforward.
25 >
26 > But, I'm starting on this 'low hanging fruit' now. I.E. converting
27 > smaller ebuilds which are eapi-5 and eapi-6 to eapi-7. So are there
28 > some cool/easy examples for folks to follow? Dunno. Perhaps someone
29 > more knowledgeable and current could suggest a few explicit examples.
30 >
31 >
32 > From what I discern, from scanning these packages you previously
33 > alluded to, many are 'maintainer-needed' that have few bugs so they just
34 > need to be updated to eapi-7?
35 >
36 >
37 > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers
38 >
39 > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers/User_Guide
40 >
41 > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Tools_for_the_work_as_proxied_maintainer
42 >
43 > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Test_environment
44 >
45 >
46 > I'm trying to subscribe to the list, as I write this.
47 > I do not like irc_chat.
48 >
49 > I like email lists. No irc-chat for me. proxy_maint that is email
50 > centric, works best for me. ymmv.
51 >
52 > So far, I've installed:
53 >
54 > colordiff
55 > imediff2
56 > dev-util/meld
57 > x11-misc/zim
58 > dev-util/imediff2
59 > repoman
60 > *tools
61 >
62 >
63 > Other suggestions and Comments?
64 >
65 > James
66 >
67
68 You can look at my open and closed pull requests
69 https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3AAlessandro-Barbieri+is%3Aclosed+sort%3Aupdated-desc
70 https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3AAlessandro-Barbieri+sort%3Aupdated-desc+is%3Aopen
71
72 While I see a lot of enthusiasm, it will get soon crashed by the wait for a
73 dev to merge your PR
74
75 >