From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12627 invoked by uid 1002); 22 Apr 2003 16:23:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 26265 invoked from network); 22 Apr 2003 16:23:24 -0000 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 11:23:23 -0500 From: William Hubbs To: Tony Clark Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030422162323.GA21428@kc5eiv.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Tony Clark , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <1050997108.2986.28.camel@amd.vsen.dk> <200304221557.42803.aoyu93@dsl.pipex.com> <1051027209.2986.81.camel@amd.vsen.dk> <200304221814.31739.tclark@telia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200304221814.31739.tclark@telia.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds not getting in :( X-Archives-Salt: d1cad029-74c8-4cae-a4e2-fb3df1340ffa X-Archives-Hash: c19d5a4829dac370c00020aaee5ab09a Hi all, I agree here. If there is a maintainer for an ebuild, anyone who wants another version of the ebuild in the system should be able to send it to the maintainer for the ebuild or file a bug that should be assigned to the maintainer. Otherwise things would get really confusing. William On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 06:14:31PM +0200, Tony Clark wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 22 April 2003 18.00, Klavs Klavsen wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 16:57, Peter Ruskin wrote: > > > On Tuesday 22 Apr 2003 15:26, Dan Armak wrote: > > > > The second will facilitate quick acceptance of user-submitted ebuilds > > > > in some way - probably drawing upon the submitters in one way or > > > > another. > > > > > > I'm more than willing to maintain ebuilds I submit. > > > > Same here. What are the requirements for being a maintainer? > > I don't think one has to make the newest version available ASAP. > > This f.ex. didn't happen with drip - which was why I created a new > > version myself. > > > > I think people who submit ebuilds should automacally be added as > > maintainer of the ebuild. If they contribute with a newer version of a > > given ebuild - then they should be added as maintainer - keeping the old > > maintainer too. > > Not too sure I agree with this. You need people to take some sort of > ownership of the problem. If things don't get done then you can look at > replacing them. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list