From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M4fbV-0004bF-IO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 May 2009 18:24:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9ED97E0353; Thu, 14 May 2009 18:24:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost03.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost03.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.3.142]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6732CE0353 for ; Thu, 14 May 2009 18:24:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [62.3.120.141] (helo=NeddySeagoon) by smarthost03.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1M4fbT-0006aJ-Ky for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 May 2009 18:24:23 +0000 Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 19:24:17 +0100 From: Roy Bamford Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Project proposal -- maintainer-wanted To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1242261133.23088.82.camel@localhost> (from leio@gentoo.org on Thu May 14 01:32:12 2009) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.3.28 Message-Id: <1242325462.4014.0@NeddySeagoon> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Originating-Smarthost03-IP: [62.3.120.141] X-Archives-Salt: 6203c0a1-f2e4-41b3-b3c4-69bce4836c5e X-Archives-Hash: fd0c129cbf019c495d2ffff66114b93c -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2009.05.14 01:32, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Hello, >=20 [snip] > Project maintainer-wanted > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D >=20 > 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. >=20 [snip] >=20 > Discuss! :) >=20 > Mart Raudsepp > Gentoo Developer > Mail: leio@gentoo.org > Weblog: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/leio >=20 Mart,=20 I'm against for many of the reasons AllanJB outlined. There is no point=20 in adding more unmaintained packages to the tree. Over time, the=20 average quality of the tree will suffer. We could use user contributed ebuilds attached to bugs as a way to=20 bring Sunrise to the contributors attention just by posting a comment=20 to the bug. If the contributor follows up, we get another user=20 maintained ebuild in Sunrise, which is good, as the current developers=20 don't have to do all the work. We already know some Sunrise=20 contributors become developers so perhaps we can use this as a way to=20 attract more contributors (both users and developers). Its probably a bad idea to send all the bugspam at the same time,=20 Sunrise might be overwhelmed, which would be bad for Sunrise and user=20 contributors who would feel let down =20 - --=20 Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops forum-mods treecleaners trustees -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoMYdYACgkQTE4/y7nJvav1hgCfULFWGyBpvXC5dy5KrekYYM80 QhIAnjM0GQQQKuzkf17Oj56RH7Z1X5cl =3DwK1Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----