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From: Roy Marples <roy@marples.name>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for March
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 07:38:11 +0000
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On Wednesday 05 March 2008 17:11:58 Anant Narayanan wrote:
> If it's not too late for this month's meeting, I'd like to discuss the
> possibility of including a new "post" in our developer base - the
> package maintainer.
>
> a) The requirements to become a package maintainer for Gentoo may be
> lesser than that of the full-fledged developer. This serves a couple
> of purposes:
> 	- Users might become more motivated to becoming a maintainer for
> Gentoo, since it would require less time and effort from their end
> 	- Might reduce the number of orphaned packages we have in the tree

Adding user repos to layman isn't good enough?
Plus, there's always sunrise.

Thanks

Roy
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