[gentoo-dev] participating in gentoo

[gentoo-dev] participating in gentoo

[David Spreen]

Hey there,
is it possible to become a part of the project to fix bugs in 
packages, process .ebuilds from the bts (and upload own ones)?
I read about cvs access for that purpose in the portage users 
manual. How does it work? What do I have to proceed?

I'd like to contribute to the project, cause I think about
the long time an ebuild takes to get into the repo to be 
one of the most important disadvantages of gentoo linux.

thanks for your help,

David 
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Re: [gentoo-dev] participating in gentoo

[Joachim Blaabjerg]

Hi David!

How is LIDS going? Still in Debian? =)

On Tuesday 22 October 2002 18:54, David Spreen wrote:
> Hey there,
> is it possible to become a part of the project to fix bugs in
> packages, process .ebuilds from the bts (and upload own ones)?

BTS = Bug Tracking System? Anyone can submit/fix/comment on (etc.) bugs in 
http://bugs.gentoo.org. The easiest way to get started, is just signing up 
(if you haven't do so already) and start checking out bugs. 

> I read about cvs access for that purpose in the portage users
> manual. How does it work? What do I have to proceed?

I believe anonymous CVS access has been unavailable for a while, and I have no 
idea when (or if) it's coming back up. Mind you, this is not an official 
statement.

> I'd like to contribute to the project, cause I think about
> the long time an ebuild takes to get into the repo to be
> one of the most important disadvantages of gentoo linux.

Contributions are always welcome! CVS write access is at this time restricted 
to developers, though (AFAIK). The main reason for the long waiting time of 
new ebuilds at the moment, is the current freeze prior to the 1.4 release.

> thanks for your help,

Best Regards,

Re: [gentoo-dev] participating in gentoo

[Mike Frysinger]

for new people, usually the best place to start is helping
out at bugs.gentoo.org with packages you're good at ...
kde/gnome/mysql/what have you ...
learn how to make ebuilds, submit some for packages,
that kind of thing ...
oh, and get to know some of the Gentoo dev's ;)
we like friends
-mike

On Tuesday 22 October 2002 12:54 pm, David Spreen wrote:
> Hey there,
> is it possible to become a part of the project to fix bugs in
> packages, process .ebuilds from the bts (and upload own ones)?
> I read about cvs access for that purpose in the portage users
> manual. How does it work? What do I have to proceed?
>
> I'd like to contribute to the project, cause I think about
> the long time an ebuild takes to get into the repo to be
> one of the most important disadvantages of gentoo linux.
>
> thanks for your help,
>
> David

Re: [gentoo-dev] participating in gentoo

[Tony Clark]

I put an ebuild on bugs.gentoo a few days ago for transcode-0.6.1 but I 
haven't heard back yet.  I guess it is becuase of the current freeze but it 
does fix a few odd bugs in transcode-0.6.0 and has been out for a while now.  
One problem is, you don't know who's toes your stepping on when you do 
something like this.  I list of package maintainers and their packages would 
be useful.  I don't helping looking after a few packages either.

tony

On Wednesday 23 October 2002 01.45, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> for new people, usually the best place to start is helping
> out at bugs.gentoo.org with packages you're good at ...
> kde/gnome/mysql/what have you ...
> learn how to make ebuilds, submit some for packages,
> that kind of thing ...
> oh, and get to know some of the Gentoo dev's ;)
> we like friends
> -mike
>
> On Tuesday 22 October 2002 12:54 pm, David Spreen wrote:
> > Hey there,
> > is it possible to become a part of the project to fix bugs in
> > packages, process .ebuilds from the bts (and upload own ones)?
> > I read about cvs access for that purpose in the portage users
> > manual. How does it work? What do I have to proceed?
> >
> > I'd like to contribute to the project, cause I think about
> > the long time an ebuild takes to get into the repo to be
> > one of the most important disadvantages of gentoo linux.
> >
> > thanks for your help,
> >
> > David
>
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Re: [gentoo-dev] participating in gentoo

[Mike Frysinger]

one thing ive found with Gentoo is that there usually isnt a big problem
with 'stepping on toes' ... granted i dont speak for everyone, but thats
been my general impression ;)
if youve got an update, then go ahead and ask about it and/or post
the updates ... with bugs.gentoo.org, we'll find the proper owner to
look over the submission for any given package ...
i know i love to see people make suggestions/changes simply because
it usually brings a different spin on a problem which leads to better
packages for all
-mike

On Tuesday 22 October 2002 09:57 pm, Tony Clark wrote:
> I put an ebuild on bugs.gentoo a few days ago for transcode-0.6.1 but I
> haven't heard back yet.  I guess it is becuase of the current freeze but it
> does fix a few odd bugs in transcode-0.6.0 and has been out for a while
> now.   One problem is, you don't know who's toes your stepping on when you
> do something like this.  I list of package maintainers and their packages
> would be useful.  I don't helping looking after a few packages either.

Re: [gentoo-dev] participating in gentoo

[Thomas T. Veldhouse]

Look in the ChangeLog of the ebuild to find out who has made previous
changes.

Tom Veldhouse

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Clark" <tclark@telia.com>
To: "Mike Frysinger" <vapier@gentoo.org>; <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 8:57 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] participating in gentoo


I put an ebuild on bugs.gentoo a few days ago for transcode-0.6.1 but I
haven't heard back yet.  I guess it is becuase of the current freeze but it
does fix a few odd bugs in transcode-0.6.0 and has been out for a while now.
One problem is, you don't know who's toes your stepping on when you do
something like this.  I list of package maintainers and their packages would
be useful.  I don't helping looking after a few packages either.

tony

Re: [gentoo-dev] participating in gentoo

[David Spreen]

Heyho, 

Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:
> for new people, usually the best place to start is helping
> out at bugs.gentoo.org with packages you're good at ...

> learn how to make ebuilds, submit some for packages,
> that kind of thing ...

ic.

> oh, and get to know some of the Gentoo dev's ;)
> we like friends

That's why #gentoo-dev is +m? ;)

so long...

David
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Re: [gentoo-dev] participating in gentoo

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David Spreen <netzwurm@debian.org> wrote:

> > oh, and get to know some of the Gentoo dev's ;)
> > we like friends
> 
> That's why #gentoo-dev is +m? ;)
> 


figure I'd get in here about this... That was because people
continutiosly (sp?) came there and more or less "harassed" the people
with requests for help, thus created a pretty bad S:N ratio for the
channel... +m solved that, generally asking somone for a +v will give
you one pretty soon ;)



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