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From: Philippe Chaintreuil <gentoo_bugs_peep@parallaxshift.com>
To: gentoo-proxy-maint@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-proxy-maint] [RFC] New doc & policy
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 10:36:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e80a2f30-c9bd-95ae-0342-d9d53c0e96a4@parallaxshift.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1500584775.746.11.camel@gentoo.org>


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On 7/20/2017 5:06 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On czw, 2017-07-20 at 10:02 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> Here's v2, taking into account suggestions from k_f and wraeth:


> ==How to become a proxied maintainer==

	This whole section seems to assume a lot of knowledge of infrastructure
that I don't think someone wanting become a proxy-maintainer will have.
It also seems to me that it has a lot of "all you need to do is this one
simple thing", followed by 3-4 reasons there will be other things you
need to do before that one simple thing.  This section would do better
with a checklist of steps followed by explanations of "why" as needed in
my opinion.

	Imagine being a total neophyte and seeing "maintainer needed" on a
package you have a vested interest in.  What is your first step of
contact?  The current text makes me think that it's a cold-called
Pull-Request planting your flag in the metadata.xml.  Is that the
intention?  Or should people be joining this mailing list and getting a
list of things that will need to be fixed before that pull-request?

	Also, if proxy-maintainers taking control of existing packages are more
common than creating new packages, it would seem to me that section
should come first.



	Additionally, I'd like to see a section on what a new proxy-maintainer
should do when they need help.  Especially when working in
"maintainer-needed" ebuilds where it's not obvious.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-07-21 14:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-20  8:02 [gentoo-proxy-maint] [RFC] New doc & policy Michał Górny
2017-07-20  8:33 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2017-07-20 15:02   ` Michał Górny
2017-07-20  9:36 ` Sam Jorna
2017-07-20 15:15   ` Michał Górny
2017-07-21  5:11     ` Sam Jorna (wraeth)
2017-07-20 21:06 ` Michał Górny
2017-07-21  5:14   ` Sam Jorna (wraeth)
2017-07-21  5:29   ` M. J. Everitt
2017-07-21 14:36   ` Philippe Chaintreuil [this message]
2017-07-21 18:16     ` Michał Górny
2017-07-24 17:59       ` Philippe Chaintreuil

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