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 <gentoo-dev+bounces-17453-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1GVSLa-0007y1-0u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:29:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k95CRZKY030273; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 12:27:35 GMT Received: from relay6.mail.ox.ac.uk (relay6.mail.ox.ac.uk [163.1.2.167]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k95COA3o017462 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 12:24:10 GMT Received: from smtp1.mail.ox.ac.uk ([129.67.1.207]) by relay6.mail.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from <dcoutts@gentoo.org>) id 1GVSGo-0003bv-Kn for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:24:10 +0100 Received: from dhcp0878.gradacc.ox.ac.uk ([129.67.91.110]) by smtp1.mail.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from <dcoutts@gentoo.org>) id 1GVSGo-0005NC-3y for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:24:10 +0100 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide From: Duncan Coutts <dcoutts@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4524ABAE.2000407@gentoo.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> <1160002846.4062.430.camel@localhost> <1160030087.809.50.camel@localhost> <4524ABAE.2000407@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:22:39 +0100 Message-Id: <1160050960.4062.456.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> 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: d9032da7-81da-40a6-8016-51562c38efc6 X-Archives-Hash: 372f6649a59b263ffa2d44687b4311ae 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? The whole "proxy > maintainer" thing is a bunch of crap. 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. It does mean you can sometimes offload work onto other people, eg upstream maintainers - who are themselves not interested in becoming devs but are more than happy to maintain their single ebuild. And it does actually mean less work for us because although we still have to test it, we can rely to some extent on the testing done by that maintainer and by other users who regularly build from our overlay. Also it means we don't have to look out for upstream releases because they 'darcs send' in their updates and we just take responsibility for QA and getting things into portage cvs. -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list