From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 98CDA1396D0 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2017 02:33:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A23671FC06E; Thu, 24 Aug 2017 02:33:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blaine.gmane.org (unknown [195.159.176.226]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 478481FC019 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2017 02:33:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dkhxc-0002CQ-Oj for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2017 04:33:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Help maintaining dev-erlang and ejabberd Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 02:33:24 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <87r2w3xr67.fsf@freja.aidecoe.name> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org User-Agent: Pan/0.143 (Quaint little villages here and there; caf13eb07) X-Archives-Salt: 49c54e60-ff8e-4fc1-a86d-732e1c9c07f4 X-Archives-Hash: 0af289ff34e50a2d57e42f5cc40ba0a8 R0b0t1 posted on Tue, 22 Aug 2017 21:46:09 -0500 as excerpted: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 3:50 PM, 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. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman