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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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My thinking is along the same lines as yours. Having anyone that is |
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willing to help is likely much better than no one at all and the package |
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ending up dying and leaving the tree all together. If someone can do |
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some of the heavy lifting and just push the needed info to someone else |
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who can push it into the tree, that should buy it some time at least. |
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Maybe at some point a official dev can step up. |
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The biggest thing, I didn't want it to get kicked out of the tree and |
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then the people that use it here end up going "what the heck" because |
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they didn't see it coming. |
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Me, I want to set up a very basic backup script on a cron job to copy |
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from one local drive to another local drive. Even that little thing is |
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a big deal for me. Don't even mention writing a ebuild within hearing |
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range of me. ROFL I'm to old for that stuff now. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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