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 A736313877A for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 16:24:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 324B8E082F; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 16:24:48 +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 4C9B3E081E for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 16:24:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (lumumba.torservers.net [77.247.181.163]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: hasufell) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 34ACE33F281 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 16:24:44 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <53C00FC6.4080007@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 16:24:38 +0000 From: hasufell 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: The request to abolish games team policy References: <20140707234502.3009929a@pomiot.lan> <53BC0CCA.4000702@gentoo.org> <8855764.vbinY6mDrK@note> <53BD835E.2020105@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <53BD835E.2020105@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 1241c3bb-f79a-4d1d-aa76-1895f77ad08b X-Archives-Hash: b44ddaed3d961ed29d3e41d75a380116 Samuli Suominen: > > On 09/07/14 18:35, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: >> В письме от Вт, 8 июля 2014 18:22:50 пользователь Samuli Suominen написал: >>> It seems to me like people aren't making the effort of joining to the >>> team and meeting the high quality >>> ebuild syntax they've kept up... >> Samuli! With all my respect to you personally, please, don't tell anything >> about "high quality" of ebuilds syntax by the games team. Please. >> > > There are open bugs (non-ebuild bugs), sure > There are sometimes wrong dependencies in old binary-only games which > require special CD-ROM or other distfile, because that's > when we rely upon users to report the dependencies > > But, the ebuild syntax is good as it's in eg. base-system, toolchain > And games ebuilds are nice examples for people learning to write ebuilds > > So, don't know what you are referring to... > > - Samuli > I think my mail client is broken, so the previous mail had some unrelated strings. Anyway, I agree that there is a high standard and it might be harder for inexperienced contributors to get their first games ebuilds in shape, but it is doable. However, basically having only a single person that actively does such reviews + no official overlay makes it hard for contributors.