From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1050 invoked by uid 1002); 15 Apr 2003 02:08:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 1060 invoked from network); 15 Apr 2003 02:08:25 -0000 From: "Todd Wright" To: Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 12:08:22 +1000 Message-ID: <001001c302f3$e4c9ba40$fc911ecb@geekasylum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4920.2300 Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] Is there a process for marking ebuilds stable? X-Archives-Salt: f8f69526-ee20-448f-b096-25bc8fa653c8 X-Archives-Hash: 11e23ee576bde23d8fdbe01f26263af7 > Which leads me into another problem; currently there are no official > maintainers for a large number of the ebuilds in the tree.=20 > This prevents > the above from being doable; no one is around to represent=20 > and vouch for > the functionality of those ebuilds, just the bug reporting system. To add my 2 cents worth on this point... even when there is a = maintainer, the dev team are reluctant to believe them when they vouch = for the ebuild or package and would prefer to modify the ebuilds without = any reasonable knowledge of the package and the impacts that those = modifications may have. I had a lot of trouble getting the dev team to = place my unmodified hercules-2.17.1 ebuild in the portage tree, despite = the fact that I am involved with the hercules development team. The = gentoo developers seem to have a 'we know better than you' attitude. -- _--_|\ --------- Todd Wright -- wylie@geekasylum.org -------- / \ ICQ: 9589981 YIM: mvs38j \_.--._* <--- http://www.geekasylum.org/~wylie/ v Mobile: +61-403-796-001 Ph: +61-2-9699-1746 ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list