[gentoo-dev] Re: Proxy maintainers

[gentoo@faulhammer.org (Christian 'Opfer' Faulhammer)]

Tach Natanael,                                  0x2B859DE3 (PGP-PK-ID)

Natanael Copa schrieb:
> On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 15:47 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>> On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:39:50 +0200 Natanael Copa
>> <natanael.copa@gmail.com> wrote: | I'm initially only interested in
>> maintaining packages where I'm the | upstream maintainer as well. Ick.
>> Rarely a good idea. That removes a layer of QA.
[...]
> * I can't become a proxy maintainer. (you guys will continue your
> "fight" if its a good or bad idea having proxy maintainers and meanwhile
> nothing will happen)

 You can become a proxy maintainer.  If you find a dev who trusts you  
enough to commit for you.  Did you actually read the comments on proxy  
maintainers as for FreeBSD ports?
 The discussion about world domination is very friendly so why not answer  
to the thread's arguments?

> * It's a bad idea for me to become a dev since I only want to maintain
> stuff I know I will be able to maintain. (I cant start small and take
> more and more packages over time, when/if I feel I'm able to do more)

 Just because Ciaran made a point, you give up?  Sure it would be nicer to  
have devs involved in the project itself and not only with their small  
task.

> That leaves me with the conclution that its best to just continue to run
> my own local portage tree and submit bugreports once in a while and hope
> for the best, just like I have always been doing.

 I get the feeling you just stood up to complain, not to help the  
situation.  To get a feeling for the work to be done in Gentoo, become an  
arch tester or get involved with project Sunrise, which might be what you  
are looking for.

V-Li

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