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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G8HjQ-0001KR-PV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:29:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k72ETAU2024915; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:29:10 GMT Received: from psmtp01.wxs.nl (psmtp01-real.wxs.nl [195.121.247.14]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k72ERJQJ009547 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:27:20 GMT Received: from hex.local.devrieze.net (ip5457f303.direct-adsl.nl [84.87.243.3]) by psmtp01.wxs.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k72ERJSR018601 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 16:27:19 +0200 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 16:27:08 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <200607302219.56872.vapier@gentoo.org> <46059ce10607301928g2ddf667q326d930ffacb81b9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46059ce10607301928g2ddf667q326d930ffacb81b9@mail.gmail.com> X-Face: #Lb+'V@sGJ;ptgo5}V"W+5OCoo{LZv;bh,s,`WKLi/J)ed1_$0;6X<=?utf-8?q?700LVV/=3BLqPhiDP=5E=0A=09=27f=5Dfnv?=@%6M8\'HR1t=aFx;ePfp{ZQoBe+e)JOQ8T5*(_;mHY+cltLGq<;@$Y,=?utf-8?q?O=5C=24=0A=09Tm=23G6M?=,g![Q62J{na*S9d;R[^8pc%u\aiLqU@`kJtYl"^6pxdW 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; boundary="nextPart4554953.WKngFIxlpp"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200608021627.18080.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: f6f50837-e86a-4dad-a392-8cc71b7d1a72 X-Archives-Hash: b93ad412636d06bfd590cc30fcffa4d8 --nextPart4554953.WKngFIxlpp Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 31 July 2006 04:28, Dan Meltzer wrote: > I do not see why it is considdered hard for users to "get involved". > Users have at least two choices that I can think of right now, and > probably a number that I cannot think of. > > 1) Users can submit patches/ideas to bugs.g.o at whatever frequency > they desire, contributing to gentoo casually. And the patch hanging in bugzilla forever because no-one wants to maintain = it.=20 Sunrise could help here, by accepting properly written ebuilds that do=20 however not get maintenance. Sunrise should not really be about replacing=20 current ebuilds, but offering some support for those packages that are usef= ul=20 for some, but that do not have enough usage that a developer wants to put i= t=20 into the tree. > > 2) Users can take the quizzes and become a developer, I do not see why > two quizzes is considdered an insurmountable task, the quizzes are > specifically designed to ensure that people writing ebuilds understand > what ebuilds can contain and what they cannot, I could not imagine a > user wanting to install a package from an ebuild written by someone > that does not know this. They first need to be invited to start the whole process. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --nextPart4554953.WKngFIxlpp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBE0LZFbKx5DBjWFdsRAuDiAKCAppifvG+oquL2mvi+ai9iXUj5pACfSnRN hG4rTX19Ir9RdTyQUAuPhtM= =ejcb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4554953.WKngFIxlpp-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list