Re: [gentoo-dev] base-system needs developers who care

[Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:17:58 +0000
"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Over the years, the base-system package herd has grown in size. Today
> it comprises 320 packages, of which 61 of those have more than one
> maintainer. The packages with more than one maintainer I'm only
> concerned about if the other maintainer is also very busy or not
> available.
> 
> Some of these packages are very niche, and while they continue to
> work, they could use a bit more attention than they get presently
> (you might only hear about them when they break and never when they
> work). 
> 
> They are generally NOT broken and in need of tree-cleaning, but are
> just lacking forward momentum (not a few bugs are reasonable upstream
> bugs or feature improvements). Many were once shiny and had lots of
> people that cared, but that dwindled as they become mundane and just
> expected to work.
> 
> General increase in the number of developers in base-system would not
> be a bad outcome from this email either ;-).


Count me in then.

What's the "official" way of joining these days ?