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 4.54) id 1EqOSm-0006lw-Q0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 05:30:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBP5TmPj017503; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 05:29:48 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBP5RpOr028365 for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 05:27:51 GMT Received: from zb101200.ppp.dion.ne.jp ([219.125.101.200] helo=opteron246.suzuki-stubbs.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1EqOQA-0003C5-OD for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 05:27:50 +0000 Received: by opteron246.suzuki-stubbs.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 56D80201AA6; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 14:28:41 +0900 (JST) From: Jason Stubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: how to contribute to use/slot deps: was Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 14:28:41 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 References: <43A235AD.6030604@leetworks.com> <20051224075636.GG5796@nightcrawler.e-centre.net> <20051224173306.68fa6968@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20051224173306.68fa6968@snowdrop.home> 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: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512251428.41122.jstubbs@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 149bd2d8-79ee-4bef-9b72-6fe22c8c0653 X-Archives-Hash: bab55346f6aaa0f47662194043324338 On Sunday 25 December 2005 02:33, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:56:37 -0800 Brian Harring > > wrote: > | It's really pretty simple- get off your butt and chip in if you want > | it, else you're on _our_ timeline (eg, we implement it when we deem > | it sane/ready to go). > > Is Portage development done to support the needs of those of us who > provide the tree, or is the tree expected to be restricted to whatever > Portage developers feel like implementing? Neither. At least for myself, portage development is done to prioritized according to what I see as the needs of users. Needs of "those of us who provide the tree" are prioritized by how much benefit will be translated to end users combined with how much work will be required. -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list