On Wednesday 13 January 2010 23:02:17 Ben de Groot wrote: > 2010/1/13 Mike Frysinger : > > On Tuesday 12 January 2010 15:35:45 Ben de Groot wrote: > >> 2010/1/12 Markos Chandras : > >> > If you feel like it, become a proxy-maintainer and poke a developer to > >> > put your ebuilds on tree. Have you ever heard of that ? :) > >> > >> Proxy-maintainership should be given a MUCH higher profile in Gentoo, > >> in my opinion. It is a virtually unknown option. > > > > i think our current work flows also significantly impede the smooth > > running of this. if we had were using a dscm (git) on gentoo-x86, i feel > > like it'd be a much smoother ride for Gentoo devs to pull from a proxy > > maintainer and push on their behalf. > > -mike > > I couldn't agree more! > My experience as developer this years implies that decisions about these things take way too long to get implemented ( or even discussed ). So imho, the best way to promote the proxy-maintainer thing, is individually using our blogs or any other means. -- Markos Chandras (hwoarang) Gentoo Linux Developer Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org