[gentoo-dev] Re: Help maintaining dev-erlang and ejabberd

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

R0b0t1 posted on Tue, 22 Aug 2017 21:46:09 -0500 as excerpted:

> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 3:50 PM,  <aidecoe@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>> Some time ago I've made an effort to split ejabberd into proper
>> dependencies handled by portage rather than repackaging bundle produced
>> by rebar.  While I've found that easier to maintain, my lack of
>> knowledge about Erlang makes maintenanace quite difficult. I'd
>> appreciate if someone who actually has some experience in Erlang helps
>> maintaining it.
> 
> I would like to see Erlang receive continued maintenance and may be
> able to help (note I am not as experienced as some). However this
> would be my first time working with portage at such a level.
> 
> I apologize if my post is too forward for this list.

Wonderful, and not too forward at all. =:^)

The gentoo mechanism by which non-gentoo devs maintain or co-maintain 
packages is called proxy maintenance:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers

For packages such as this one that you'd be co-maintaining along-side the 
existing maintainer, you obviously work with them and have already 
initiated contact there.  You also need to contact the proxy-maintainer 
project to initiate that angle.  There's further details and additional 
resources on the linked page, above.

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