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On 26/05/16 08:19, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> On 05/25/2016 06:09 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>> Well, considering the importance of gummiboot to some of us, I might be |
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>> willing to take it on - if I just knew a bit more about package maintenance. |
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>> As I've said many times in recent years, my days of coding expired about 25 |
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>> years ago, and then it was in very different systems from Linux. |
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> These days it's a lot easier to get practice because you don't have to |
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> deal with CVS. If you clone our git repo as your $PORTDIR, then you can |
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> make your changes and `repoman commit` just like the rest of us. If |
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> you're okay with Github, you can create pull requests there from that |
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> same clone. |
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> You should probably read through the entire devmanual once, but there's |
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> no substitute for practice and asking questions. |
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> There are a lot of easy bugs open on bugs.gentoo.org that you could fix |
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> to get experience. If you fix something in a maintainer-needed package |
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> and post a pull request, I don't see why we couldn't just merge it. |
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> You'll get good feedback that way. In fact, in the worst case, if |
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> gummiboot drops to maintainer-needed, you could fix bugs and make |
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> version bumps that way without the commitment of being the maintainer. |
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I'll also mention the Proxy Maintainers project[0] here. Yes this is |
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intended to facilitate people taking maintainership of a package, but my |
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point is that there is a project dedicated to facilitating contributors |
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without push access both in offering ebuilding support and committing |
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package changes. |
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If anyone is interested in becoming the nominal maintainer of this, let |
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us know. :) |
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[0] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers |
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Cheers; |
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Sam Jorna (wraeth) <wraeth@g.o> |
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