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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GXH2s-0005iS-UQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:49:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9ACllls008063; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:47:47 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9ACjUQ4028175 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:45:31 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D4616479E for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:45:30 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.226 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.226 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.374, BAYES_00=-2.599, DATE_IN_PAST_12_24=1.247, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=1.5] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id j06Xxy21x0zR for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:45:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D73E646E2 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:45:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GXGyk-0004Qa-Px for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:45:06 +0200 Received: from 82.152.96.138 ([82.152.96.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:45:02 +0200 Received: from slong by 82.152.96.138 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:45:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Steve Long Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:09:14 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20061004070014.843d851d.tcort@gentoo.org> <200610041332.14072.phreak@gentoo.org> <45239E81.4080201@gentoo.org> <20061004121516.GB28950@lostlogicx.com> <1159967346.809.17.camel@localhost> 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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.152.96.138 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: e93211fd-0d7e-4572-b445-0204a38df588 X-Archives-Hash: c182a3f63cb56dd6d00856f531d0d002 Natanael Copa wrote: > > What you didn't need to be a gentoo dev to be a package maintainer? Lets > say anyone could be marked as maintainer in an ebuild. When there is a > bug, the package maintainer fixes the bug and submits an updated > ebuild/patch whatever. This person has no commit access. > That makes a lot of sense, to me at least. > Then a "committer", a gentoo-dev (someone with little more experience), > just take a quick look at it and commit it. > Which would be similar to a proxy-dev, I guess, but if you're drawing people into helping maintain ebuilds that could only be a good thing. It'd be easier to run as well. (Maybe some scripts to check eg rm -fR / stuff.) > This way fewer dev with commit access is needed, and more people from > community are able to offload the dev's. > > This would also make the threshold lower for people to become a > maintainer. > FWIW I think it's a good idea. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list