From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FLULx-0004LZ-IN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:04:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2L02Z54031308; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:02:35 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.205]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2KNw80V029096 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:58:08 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id o1so1501881nzf for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:58:07 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=UaqE21z6YRtujGdHLspyp6wlgIVTtpgfdDzZePV9U/V0f9mGkqGWDtrR2jWf2rrWoqz0ZXc2Gsy4y4571YPOFQhhYu00MV79xvWWeMHFwJgQUlJGoGMC5n8G7lL5eJIwGCmDe6R6nD3c9J7G967M+KNkell860JWsPa9Sflex2c= Received: by 10.35.34.20 with SMTP id m20mr1714612pyj; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:58:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.107.17 with HTTP; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:58:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:58:07 +0100 From: "Stefan Schweizer" Sender: sschweizer@gmail.com To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making the developer community more open In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <441F35B9.8000406@gentoo.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k2KNw80V029096 X-Archives-Salt: e4477715-04cb-41f6-9b27-7654fb52da3b X-Archives-Hash: 286b8e3de03bfc08acacc8d986cbb7e4 On 3/21/06, Bret Towe wrote: > perhaps having some proxys of a sort that accept patchs and such > from trusted users that would commit fixes to portage would help. > similiar to the kernel format that way users can 'commit'/help out quickly > without having to go thru the long process of becoming a dev That is imo a key feature: Get contributions back to the users easily It doe snot need to be the portage-tree .. but an official user-overlay or contrib-overlay would definitely help to get a lot of people involved. Other projects are providing similar infrastructure with very good results, see the Arch User Repository for example: http://aur.archlinux.org It would be great to have something like that available for gentoo-users. Regards, Stefan -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list