From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NV6L0-0005jV-Lx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:44:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F20ABE0843; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:44:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vms173017pub.verizon.net (vms173017pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.17]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB46FE0843 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:44:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gw.thefreemanclan.net ([unknown] [96.245.54.62]) by vms173017.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0KW700GUQ2HPNRH3@vms173017.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:44:19 -0600 (CST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gw.thefreemanclan.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3F5EF1759FDD for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:31:49 -0500 (EST) Message-id: <4B4DF575.3080200@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:31:49 -0500 From: Richard Freeman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091229 Thunderbird/3.0 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn References: <20100113150641.GH19103@launay.org> In-reply-to: <20100113150641.GH19103@launay.org> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 8e39379c-ca7e-4b99-9a1a-f6962bd17d8d X-Archives-Hash: 013329ad003fd2999a2a402a938af5ed On 01/13/2010 10:06 AM, Arnaud Launay wrote: > which kind of explain what is a proxy maintainer (more or less), > but does not explain how to become one... > We don't really have any official process around this. Things like=20 sunrise and proxy-maintainers are good ways to get new blood into the=20 contributor pool, however, and I think they'd be good things to look=20 into. Maybe I'll try to brainstorm some ideas of how to generate=20 involvement (I'll post on -project if I come up with something). > Le Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:49:10PM +0200, Markos Chandras a =E9crit: >> 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 ? := ) > > No problem. Just tell me who I need to poke :) Would that be > antarus, saying "hey, I'm mostly in servers, how may I be of > service" ? Yup - some kind of clearinghouse and communications tool wouldn't hurt.=20 You can always post in irc or a list and see if you get any takers.=20 You can also post them in bugzilla under maintainer-wanted, but it=20 doesn't get much visibility there.