Re: [gentoo-dev] Proxy maintainers (was: Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide)

[Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 09:52 +0300, Alin Nastac wrote:
> Natanael Copa wrote:
> > Nobody has ever showed interest and I'm not pushing my services on
> > anyone.
> >   
> Why exactly you don't want to become a Gentoo dev? 

Because of the byrocracy? Is it worth it to only maintain one single
package?

Because of gentoo devs always seems to fight?

> The whole "proxy maintainer" thing is a bunch of crap.

Thanks.

Seems to work just fine in freebsd ports.

> The Gentoo developer will still be
> expected to be responsible of his/her commits, which means 2 maintainers
> will spend (approximately) same amount of time testing it.

The Gentoo developer would have the final reposability, so yes, he/she
might need to test it. But if it doesn't work the Gentoo developer sends
an email to the (proxy) maintainer: "It doesn't work. Please fix or I
won't commit" or: "The code is too ugly. Please improve or I won't
commit".

The Gentoo dev can establish a relationship with the maintainer so after
a while he/she knows the (proxy) maintainer is trustable and can commit
after just a look. This in contrast to dealing with thousands unknown
bug reporters.

If the (proxy) maintainer doesn't answer, the gentoo dev can either fix
it himself/herself or find an new maintainer - which I believe is easier
than requiting a new dev, since it does not *feel* like as much
responsability, even if it is.

Its funny, I use gentoo much more that FreeBSD, I'm a freebsd port
maintainer, but nothing for Gentoo (well, im an active bugreporter...)

When I submit a fix/version bumb (I submit as "maintainer update") to
freebsd ports, its normally committed within hours, even if its not a
popular port. When I submit fixes for packages in Gentoo bugzilla it get
stuck for months. They must have done something right.

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Natanael Copa

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