On Friday 11 July 2003 07:40, Patrick Kursawe wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 06:31:32PM +0200, Martin Lesser wrote:
> > Before reporting this ebuild to bugs.gentoo.org I would like to know how
> > long the "normal" period is between reporting a new ebuild and finding
> > this ebuild in the portage tree (or getting any other response)- another
> > ebuild was added on 05/31/03
> > (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22000) but since then not much
> > happened...
>
> I'm afraid there is nothing like a "normal" period. It depends on quite
> a few factors... for example, if a developer is interested in the program,
> if he thinks he will be able to maintain it, how clean the ebuild looks,
> air pressure, moon phase...
>
> > IMO creating or reporting ebuilds which perhaps are only helpful here
> > doesn't make much sense.
>
> Perhaps someone else who needs it will find it when searching
> bugs.gentoo.org for it. Try to see it as a "user contributed ebuilds"
> database aswell.

Also, ebuilds that go to big projects as kde and gnome will probably take more 
time. There are very many kde and gnome programs with various functions. The 
herds project aims to divide those to more projects, so that a kde sound 
editor will go to the sound project, not to kde. That should help things as 
the members of the kde and gnome projects do not use every kind of program 
themselves.

Paul

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