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 1NsMPy-0007ea-A3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:34:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C25BE0CA1; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:34:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.158]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD1D0E0C8E for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:34:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so436308fga.10 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:34:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=CyCkEnYdO3Ji6SdI4KraFZe4rm53GjQ5V7Uktv9TdEY=; b=mNruYG3Rae6HJBrOI1Zi8EsnsQBXnKmUCysCHKtHUuBJsUG58h3m9G7gQzTEyig2wW rvgnklRxeBi1xGl21zw4L1vgKO/n32xWqInBkqz8dS3xWmNPhzjL4oSkSgPxHAfcOK+I nxhD7pL8xZQBL6VKxV6pwIRFqQ5DAD3Ft7veA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=LXjqmq/OJJ4kpMbRqxfJOoP0IzUpZgehwMt7GFxMSkfxuoO+B6QbvSI0ZuAireYXrY vJoQob8thyvs5449355i5ZBrriWks2GxHTgrPqODds2Pgkpqrd/kU75rKs19zbzPl/Qa WDQvWWufJ4I3DEAp9Gpa7N8fpa59igDX1/2g0= 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 Sender: yngwin.gentoo@gmail.com Received: by 10.239.180.8 with SMTP id f8mr51600hbg.149.1268944443084; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:34:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BA27A77.2050803@gentoo.org> References: <201003181830.01103.hwoarang@gentoo.org> <4BA27A77.2050803@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:34:02 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: a21568b9afd347c7 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC]: Proxy-maintainer project From: Ben de Groot To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 53da3492-6075-48ba-ad8c-6078e165b800 X-Archives-Hash: 6980ca542d66e5f47bd24485eaf3471d On 18 March 2010 20:09, Thomas Sachau wrote: > The next group of users are those, who actively maintain > their ebuild, also help other users and do this for a longer > time. Usually those users get a mentor offer sooner or later > and then become a Gentoo Developer. Recruitment being the bottleneck that it is (with candidates waiting many months), it is good to have another option for people who want to contribute. In my personal experience proxy-maintenance is a good way into eventual devhood. There is no reason not to promote the possibility of proxy-maintenance. Cheers, -- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux Qt project lead developer