Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Project proposal -- maintainer-wanted

[Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@gentoo.org>]

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On 2009.05.14 01:32, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
> Hello,
> 
[snip]

> Project maintainer-wanted
> =========================
> 
> Abstract:
> There are currently quite some package requests (over 3000)
> languishing
> on bugzilla waiting for a developer or team to get interested and
> package it in the official gentoo-x86 portage tree. However in quite
> some cases that might not happen for quite a while even with very
> popular packages desired by users. The purpose of the
> maintainer-wanted
> project is to get as many of such packages to the official tree as
> possible as a stopgap solution.
> 
[snip]
> 
> Discuss! :)
> 
> Mart Raudsepp
> Gentoo Developer
> Mail: leio@gentoo.org
> Weblog: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/leio
> 

Mart, 

I'm against for many of the reasons AllanJB outlined. There is no point 
in adding more unmaintained packages to the tree. Over time, the 
average quality of the tree will suffer.

We could use user contributed ebuilds attached to bugs as a way to 
bring Sunrise to the contributors attention just by posting a comment 
to the bug. If the contributor follows up, we get another user 
maintained ebuild in Sunrise, which is good, as the current developers 
don't have to do all the work. We already know some Sunrise 
contributors become developers so perhaps we can use this as a way to 
attract more contributors (both users and developers).

Its probably a bad idea to send all the bugspam at the same time, 
Sunrise might be overwhelmed, which would be bad for Sunrise and user 
contributors who would feel let down  

- -- 
Regards,

Roy Bamford
(NeddySeagoon) a member of
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