[gentoo-dev] Another Feedback Suggestion

[gentoo-dev] Another Feedback Suggestion

[Dan Armak]

Hi all,

This is unrelated to my previous post with a similar subject.

How about letting users register packages for which they want ebuilds written 
in a list on the gentoo site, so that developers and the users who write 
ebuilds themselves can see what's most requested and work on it? After all 
we're not such a very large developer group and it might well happen that a 
package which none of us uses is very important to mnay other people.


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Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel

Re: [gentoo-dev] Another Feedback Suggestion

[Mikael Hallendal]

Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> This is unrelated to my previous post with a similar subject.
> 
> How about letting users register packages for which they want ebuilds
> written in a list on the gentoo site, so that developers and the users
> who write ebuilds themselves can see what's most requested and work on
> it? After all we're not such a very large developer group and it might
> well happen that a package which none of us uses is very important to
> mnay other people.

This sounds like a great idea. The could be a feature in wiki, people
(anyone) can add a request for an ebuild, he can also set which team
it probably should belong to. It will then appear as an todo in that
team. If no team is set or the wrong team is set, any developer can
then sort them into the correct team.

The fealing I'm getting here is that wiki is starting to be more and
more like bugzilla and soon we have reinvented the wheel fully :)

Regards,
Mikael Hallendal

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Another Feedback Suggestion

[Dan Armak]

On Monday 30 July 2001 20:27, you wrote:
> Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org> writes:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This is unrelated to my previous post with a similar subject.
> >
> > How about letting users register packages for which they want ebuilds
> > written in a list on the gentoo site, so that developers and the users
> > who write ebuilds themselves can see what's most requested and work on
> > it? After all we're not such a very large developer group and it might
> > well happen that a package which none of us uses is very important to
> > mnay other people.
>
> This sounds like a great idea. The could be a feature in wiki, people
> (anyone) can add a request for an ebuild, he can also set which team
> it probably should belong to. It will then appear as an todo in that
> team. If no team is set or the wrong team is set, any developer can
> then sort them into the correct team.
>
> The fealing I'm getting here is that wiki is starting to be more and
> more like bugzilla and soon we have reinvented the wheel fully :)

Well, as long as we enjoy doing so! You could make user-posted todos a new 
priority, either the lowest or a "special" proiority, and developers could 
grab the todo or assign it to a std. priority/team/branch.

Thread?

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Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel

Re: [gentoo-dev] Another Feedback Suggestion

[Dan Armak]

Thread has a thread with wiki feature requests, I posted this there as a 
followup.


On Monday 30 July 2001 19:44, you wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is unrelated to my previous post with a similar subject.
>
> How about letting users register packages for which they want ebuilds
> written in a list on the gentoo site, so that developers and the users who
> write ebuilds themselves can see what's most requested and work on it?
> After all we're not such a very large developer group and it might well
> happen that a package which none of us uses is very important to mnay other
> people.

-- 

Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel