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On 07/30/2013 11:32 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: |
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> On 07/30/2013 01:16 PM, hasufell wrote: |
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>> And we need MOAR devs |
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>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1&chap=2 |
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>> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Gentoo/Staffing_Needs |
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>> so awesome! srsly! |
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>> What many people don't seem to get is: you don't need to be a commit |
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>> monkey doing your 100+ commits per week. |
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>> Our minimum rate of commits is pretty low before you actually are forced |
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>> to retire. |
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>> Better have a lot of devs each one focussing on a few packages than |
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>> having few devs working on the entire tree and messing up things randomly. |
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>> It's not that much work, just some regular attention. You want to join! |
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> I was interested in becoming a dev for a little while, but the testing |
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> and what looks to be prolonged process kinda put me off of the idea. It |
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> just seems like a lot of bureaucratic work. Perhaps my impression is |
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> wrong, though... |
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Yes, your impression is wrong. |
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You can: |
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a) file bugs |
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b) attach your ebuilds to bug reports (either demanding inclusion or |
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fixing a bug, etc...) |
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c) proxy-maintain a package (say in the bug report that you are willing |
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to do that) |
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d) start contributing to sunrise (join #gentoo-sunrise) and get noticed |
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or participate in #gentoo-dev-help |
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e) just be bold and tell us we need you; it's good if you already have |
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an overlay and some experience or worked on bugzilla ebuilds a lot |
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> Which projects are most in need of developers or maintainers? I wouldn't |
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> mind learning a bit more about package maintenance, portage, and ebuilds... |
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an incomplete list of herds needing help from my own perspective: |
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- perl herd is officially asking for help |
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- lang-misc consists of _one_ dev (we can also need help with packages |
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like dev-lang/elixir, dev-lang/fpc and dev-lang/dmd, dmd not being in |
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the tree yet for that very reason) |
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- science herd is unable to import most of their ebuilds into the tree, |
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so they stay in the science overlay. That sucks. More people. |
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- gnome is really underpowered, hence the trouble with gnome3 |
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if it's about projects, then well... maybe "gentoo alt" (bsd and |
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prefix), arch testers or even kernel (kernel package maintainers don't |
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have the resources anymore to stabilize vanilla-sources). Also: if you |
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are good with python, you want to contribute to portage... very few |
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people work on that and it's not getting less work. Our security system |
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lacks some responsiveness imo due to being underpowered, we can improve |
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that. |
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GENTOO IS AWESOME! |
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