[gentoo-dev] dev-eiffel: do we have anough interest and somebody to back it up?

[gentoo-dev] dev-eiffel: do we have anough interest and somebody to back it up?

[George Shapovalov]

Hi gang.

Recently I "inheriterd" a few bugs that contained new ebuild submissions for 
the apps that would go into dev-eiffel category.  Um, new category I thought, 
- that would require a maintainer. So I asked the guy who submitted this 
bunch of ebuilds to step up to the challenge (having recalled that I saw his 
name quite a few times already and processed few of his submissions and did 
not remember anything bad :)).  Well, it appears some time has passed since 
he submitted his ebuilds and he was not much interested in eiffel language 
anymore (it did not fulfill his needs of the moment, although he still liked 
it :)).

All in all this leaves these submissions without a maintainer and technically 
I would need to close the bugs with WONTFIX, This would be a waste, so I 
decided to ask here firts:

1. Do we have enough interest in eiffel language and related tools? Enough to 
warrant new categiry particularly - there already is dev-lang/smarteiffel in 
portage. I would like to ask interested parties to leave their feedback in 
#11950. 
There already are two more packages (##11951, 11953) to populate dev-eiffel 
category, which is marginally sufficient. It would be better to have a bit 
more stuff to warrant the category as well (otherwise these ebuilds can be 
put in some existing category).

Provided there is sufficient interest to this language, all the following 
applies as well. Otherwise if I don't get indications of an interest within a 
week I will close these 3 bugs with WONTFIX.

2. It is a policy of the late that everything requires a (-n either bulk or 
personal) maintainer. Especially such pronounced thing as new category. Thus, 
additionally to p.1 above, I am asking a brave person to step up and take a 
look at these abuilds with an intention of becoming a maintainer of the 
category. List of requirement would be as follows:
1) Apparently knowledge and appreciation of the language and the tools. ;).
2) History of development participation (submitted ebuilds/bug fixes) is a 
*big* plus.
3) I would ask this person to prepare two more ebuilds for eiffel related 
tools of his choice and submit them to bugzilla, assigning to me directly. 
This will let me do an initial check of this person skills and will bring the 
number of ebuilds to be in the category to 5, which is a reasonable 
"threshold" for starting a new category (and I already know that number of 
packages rapidly grows when there is a passionate person behind a topic, so I 
am not too concerned about having "just five" ebuilds in the category).

Oh, and while I am on this topic. Smarteiffel-1.1 has been released, however 
since the build sequence has changed somewhat, it would be really usefull to 
get an ebuild for new version. This is in the list of my bugs (#23083), so 
I'll get there eventually, but having somebody who already worked with the 
package to add the ebuild to the bug would speed things along ;).

George



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Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-eiffel: do we have anough interest and somebody to back it up?

[Mike Frysinger]

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On Saturday 23 August 2003 20:08, George Shapovalov wrote:
> All in all this leaves these submissions without a maintainer and
> technically I would need to close the bugs with WONTFIX, This would be a
> waste, so I decided to ask here firts:

you mean LATER ... best idea in a case like this would be to give to 
bug-wranglers as LATER ...
-mike

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