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 1GVMrQ-0005hT-6E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:37:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k956air5025919; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 06:36:44 GMT Received: from mail44.e.nsc.no (mail44.e.nsc.no [193.213.115.44]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k956YmJI010661 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 06:34:48 GMT Received: from mail.nor.wtbts.org ([213.234.126.131]) by mail44.nsc.no (8.13.8/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k956YlE1007582 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 08:34:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.nor.wtbts.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CF033FA7C for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 08:34:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.nor.wtbts.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00632-09 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 08:34:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from nc.nor.wtbts.org (unknown [192.168.65.211]) by mail.nor.wtbts.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 411C63FA40 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 08:34:47 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide From: Natanael Copa To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1160002846.4062.430.camel@localhost> 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> <1160002846.4062.430.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 08:34:47 +0200 Message-Id: <1160030087.809.50.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-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at wtbts.no X-Archives-Salt: eb370d13-996c-472d-bc7d-3b62cb4f6beb X-Archives-Hash: d8140d364d664d362542408a234d103d On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 00:00 +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote: > 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. If the "proxy maintainer" is specified as contact person in the ebuild, and will be added to the CC list on bugs posted, the official developer will not need to care about it until he gets a response from the proxy developer. > For some of our ebuilds we already have de-facto "proxy developers". If it would be possible to become a proxy developer, I'd be maintainer for several packages. Its not the first time I'm offering that: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76213#c2 Nobody has ever showed interest and I'm not pushing my services on anyone. But I'd like to do official portage and not any overlay. I have submitted ebuilds to bugzilla that ended up in an overlay somehwere (bug got closed) and has dissapeared for ever. I can't post bugs about overlays in bugzilla, (I suppose) so no updated ebuild have been submitted and I ended up just running my own local overlay. -- Natanael Copa -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list