From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GVFnX-0000bC-Af for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Oct 2006 23:05:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k94N4BJW003668; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 23:04:12 GMT Received: from relay2.mail.ox.ac.uk (relay2.mail.ox.ac.uk [163.1.2.161]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k94N2GF0030821 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 23:02:16 GMT Received: from smtp0.mail.ox.ac.uk ([129.67.1.205]) by relay2.mail.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GVFkm-0002Mi-88 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:02:16 +0100 Received: from dhcp0878.gradacc.ox.ac.uk ([129.67.91.110]) by smtp0.mail.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GVFkm-0004ge-0i for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:02:16 +0100 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide From: Duncan Coutts To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1159996414.10543.78.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> References: <20061004070014.843d851d.tcort@gentoo.org> <1159971525.10543.22.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <3b09e8e90610040738p5c35c134v43e790f0ec7060f2@mail.gmail.com> <1159975428.10543.64.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <52818.192.168.2.155.1159982406.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com> <1159996414.10543.78.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:00:46 +0100 Message-Id: <1160002846.4062.430.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4ce823a2-b759-47ba-ae9d-ae47c0056b6f X-Archives-Hash: 384f8a23d3587204c4c9126b656920b4 On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 17:13 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > With the increase in developer and project overlays, I see the > possibility for reducing work needed to maintain many packages. As > Natanael Copa, it would be nice for him to be able to maintain packages > without having CVS access. The idea of formalizing and promoting "proxy > developers" has come up a few times before, and I think it is a great > idea. Work is done in the overlays, tested, improved, then committed > into the main tree once the kinks have been worked out. We get a > stronger core tree with fewer "developers" and a better interaction with > the community. Some projects/herds already work this way with good results. We regularly get contributions from users that go into our overlay, get tested by us and other users and then get into the main portage tree some time later. We have a very low barrier to entry, it's just darcs record; darcs send. Then one of the devs reviews and applies/rejects the patch. Easy. For some of our ebuilds we already have de-facto "proxy developers". -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list