From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JXAgG-0001F8-LR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:38:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B56B2E088C; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 07:38:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.marples.name (rsm.demon.co.uk [80.177.111.50]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46751E088C for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 07:38:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from uberpc.marples.name (uberpc.marples.name [10.73.1.30]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.marples.name (Postfix) with ESMTP id 245101900DE for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 07:38:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Roy Marples To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for March Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 07:38:11 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20080301103002.A2AE266A22@smtp.gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803060738.11212.roy@marples.name> X-Archives-Salt: bb76c239-e427-48a7-a234-6a613ff152ce X-Archives-Hash: 50ed2e65e6282379088e3a87b9906cb4 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 -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list