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 1JXBzi-00083w-4N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:02:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 31904E04BE; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 09:02:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp2.ist.utl.pt (smtp2.ist.utl.pt [193.136.128.22]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCBDDE04BE for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 09:02:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp2.ist.utl.pt (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33CF4701A767 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 09:02:27 +0000 (WET) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.4.2 (20060627) (Debian) at ist.utl.pt Received: from smtp2.ist.utl.pt ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp2.ist.utl.pt [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with LMTP id Owmf4wrOMXVM for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 09:02:26 +0000 (WET) Received: from mail.ist.utl.pt (mail.ist.utl.pt [193.136.128.8]) by smtp2.ist.utl.pt (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3861701A766 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 09:02:26 +0000 (WET) Received: from localhost.brazil (unknown [81.84.157.159]) (Authenticated sender: ist24237@mail.ist.utl.pt) by mail.ist.utl.pt (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1B1C1400313 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 09:02:26 +0000 (WET) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 09:02:09 +0000 From: =?UTF-8?B?U8OpYmFzdGllbg==?= Fabbro To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for March Message-ID: <20080306090209.6d2de54f@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20080301103002.A2AE266A22@smtp.gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.8; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/1T0UqjIXKJ5B=w6UrjkYj1_"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: e6f4baf6-57b5-401a-b04c-f3b9fe08da8c X-Archives-Hash: 494629731bc3ddfbb40f94bf412bef99 --Sig_/1T0UqjIXKJ5B=w6UrjkYj1_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Anant Narayanan wrote: >=20 > 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. >=20 The idea is interesting. We have been thinking about something similar in the sci team. We are already maintaining some packages we don't know how to test. We also don't particularly like the idea of getting scientific results based on untested software. The overlays are not a solution. Packages in the overlays do not go through keywording or stabilisation processes, do not get all the publicity, and don't have bug support as advanced as the ones in the main tree. In all the sci* herds, we have more than 180 requests for new packages only in bugzilla. Our active team is small and overloaded with already more than 430 packages to maintain. Many other teams are facing the same issue. We have contacted some talented ebuild submitters who neither want to spend the time nor feel the responsibility of a full dev. A formal proxy-maintainer could really help in our sometimes blind maintaining duties. -- S=C3=A9bastien --Sig_/1T0UqjIXKJ5B=w6UrjkYj1_ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHz7Mf1ycZbhPLE2ARAp23AJ9mfPHo1MzS5Nd8RdWbdfLvyWr5gQCdGWJE AlaUsKs1L7OmVOFkWAPqI1s= =935R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/1T0UqjIXKJ5B=w6UrjkYj1_-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list