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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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