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 7F5EC1387FD for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:05:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B2122E090F; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:05:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C5054E08FB for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:05:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.111] (unknown [114.91.164.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: patrick) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1C74333FD55 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:05:33 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <53978F37.101@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 07:05:27 +0800 From: Patrick Lauer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 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] The state and future of the OpenRC project References: <20140607201920.0e0ccd5c@gentoo.org> <53937778.7020604@sporkbox.us> <20140607230815.07bc18e7@marga.jer-c2.orkz.net> <20140610213930.0654bd3a77fee84e23958109@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140610213930.0654bd3a77fee84e23958109@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2f014023-9d29-459d-be1d-8251032de393 X-Archives-Hash: f9b75951dcfd2026589bd6481e108e82 On 06/11/2014 01:39 AM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jun 2014 23:08:15 +0200 Jeroen Roovers wrote: >> On Sat, 07 Jun 2014 15:35:04 -0500 >> Daniel Campbell wrote: >> >>>> [2]: Overview of bugs that involve OpenRC, most for the package >>>> itself. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=openrc >> >>> I think working on OpenRC would be a great learning experience for me >>> and would be a great opportunity to contribute to Gentoo. >> >> You can start fixing bugs immediately. You can check out the sources, >> write patches and attach the patches to the bug reports. Then all it >> takes is someone else to review/commit the patches. > > And who will review patches made? There are already six push > requests pending on OpenRC github for a long time: > https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/pulls > And some of them are fixing long-standing severe bugs such as > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391945 is fixed by: > https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/pull/12 > https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/pull/13 > We tested these patches on our infra and they work fine. Though > without upstream accepting/reviewing these changes for a long time > all enthusiasm dies slowly... Some people like me don't github, so if it's not a bugreport on bugs.g.o it'll just be ignored. Duplicating stuff like that is still a bad idea ... (I have no idea why some people are so eager to have multiple writable clones of repositories) > > I understand that all devs have issues of their own to handle and I > don't want to blame anyone due to a lack of time. I just want to > point out that lack of contributions is only one side of a problem. > Another one is that someone with proper authority should take care > of such contributions. As long as they are in the right place