From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EEU9O-0004Ej-IM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:53:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j8BFmwxl032126; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:48:58 GMT Received: from griffon26.kfk4ever.com (griffon26.demon.nl [82.161.57.89]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8BFlHwY007554 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:47:17 GMT Received: by griffon26.kfk4ever.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 12E98A1A0A1; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 17:50:46 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 17:50:45 +0200 From: Maurice van der Pot To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date Message-ID: <20050911155045.GA13507@kfk4ever.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <1126447110.10560.13.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1126447110.10560.13.camel@localhost> X-PGP-Key: http://www.kfk4ever.com/~griffon26/pubkey.asc X-URL: http://www.kfk4ever.com/ X-Archives-Salt: acab6c68-985b-4f5e-80c6-d1e5a84f6a0d X-Archives-Hash: 468cfce3bbcde59d4f8f1e4ba1f7d035 --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 09:58:30AM -0400, Peter Hyman wrote: > In addition, I and others have contributed ebuilds for consideration, > and they continue to languish or are assigned to the maintainer-wanted > alias. I have offered to produce ebuilds for review and submission. I > was told I needed to become a developer. While I would be happy to take > on the responsibility, I don't see why it would be necessary. The > ebuilds are already there for you. Just search ROX in bugzilla. I don't > need my name on it. However, I do feel strongly that if you are going to > offer a package suite in portage, you have an obligation to keep it > current -- ESPECIALLY when the user community is doing the work already. > No one is asking for any special work to be done -- just that bugs are > responded to and handled. If bugs are not handled in a timely manner, it is because we're shorthanded. This is also the reason new ebuilds are often assigned to maintainer-wanted. We'd rather not add packages to portage if there is no developer to pick up maintenance for them. Remember that we are all investing our spare time to work on Gentoo, we're not getting paid. We'd rather focus on removing bugs from packages already in portage than on adding new packages. Also for some packages it is hard to find a maintainer because it is best if the maintainer is also an active user of the package. If a relatively small group of people uses a package, it's much harder to find a suitable maintainer. If you see an area that could use an extra developer working on it and you think you could be that developer, by all means apply for the position. Here are some links of interest: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/staffing-needs/index.xml http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=3D1&chap=3D2 Regards, Maurice. --=20 Maurice van der Pot Gentoo Linux Developer griffon26@gentoo.org http://www.gentoo.org Creator of BiteMe! griffon26@kfk4ever.com http://www.kfk4ever.com --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDJFJVMGnpIbeahxwRAs6lAJwPYiwVOzEgNubRoGZpc+KoMn+b8wCcCNRl mRWy7lB1R/YBNsbvV1ifWTY= =XATW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list