From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCD101381FB for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:59:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C54C921C0EE; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:59:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 98B5821C00D for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:59:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.19] (62.47-136-217.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be [217.136.47.62]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: patrick) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7381833D89E for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:59:13 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <50DD7BBF.2010804@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:00:15 +0100 From: Patrick Lauer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120916 Thunderbird/15.0.1 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] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...) References: <50CDFD7F.7040207@orlitzky.com> <50CE62DE.3060608@orlitzky.com> <20121217104006.4f149977@pomiocik.lan> <20121219075656.3d07efab@marga.jer-c2.orkz.net> <20121219100343.61de5cd1@pomiocik.lan> <50DB2824.6040000@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <50DB2824.6040000@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 697eefef-3ca5-4b6b-aff0-e333055ccd21 X-Archives-Hash: 691435459cc1805291d22b3e3682882f On 12/26/2012 05:39 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: > I know, it should be easy, and I'm probably making excuses, but it boils > down to Well, it boils down to you needing an excuse ;) > 1. People in Gentoo have asked me to/encouraged me to do the quizzes > 2. I've tried several times > 3. Still not there. > 4. This problem is not so prevalent in the dozens of other projects I've > contributed to. If you tried several times you should have the notes from then, after a few tries I expect you to reach full coverage of all questions at some point ... > As soon as Git migration is done, then I can just > > 1. Fork > 2. Hack > 3. Somebody can watch/review/cherry-pick commits I make if they like > them, if not, I'm not worried. > > But the git part aside, back to the quiz. > Right now you can: 1) publish overlay 2) profit I don't see how this is in any way related to the technology used - as a maintainer I'd still have to review the changes, and the difference between some git magic and some shell magic eludes me. The more difficult part imo is finding someone to review, provide feedback etc. - once you have that figured out the rest pretty much happens by itself