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 1Mu0Cf-0006Ou-Oo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:42:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA588E0914; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 08:42:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9624BE0914 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 08:42:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FAC767799 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 08:42:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.547 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.547 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.052, BAYES_00=-2.599] 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 EXO0wBZO0qzT for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 08:42:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DBCC6783A for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 08:42:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Mu0CE-0007Rd-KR for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:42:30 +0200 Received: from ip68-231-21-207.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.21.207]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:42:30 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-21-207.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:42:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Anyone intrested in maintaining Midnight Commander? Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 08:42:09 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <4AC64D0E.2030202@gentoo.org> <64e6e6bf0910021440m1ea4aabbl4e6ec640371ae5d@mail.gmail.com> 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 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-21-207.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 2896f282-75d1-4533-b87f-eed2f23563e8 X-Archives-Hash: 4928f73e6841db05873967c76ab19903 matt mooney posted on Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:40:55 -0700 as excerpted: > I would possibly be interested in maintaining mc. I am not a current > gentoo developer, but I have been trying to get involved recently. Is > there anyway I could help out? Or is this only for current gentoo > developers. Hi, Matt, I'm just a user (both Gentoo and mc) too. A gentoo-dev needs to be the=20 committing maintainer, but there's what's called a proxy maintainer setup= =20 as well. =20 If you're interested in being the user maintainer while he's the proxy,=20 contact Alex A (aka and gentoo email wired@), who appears to have taken=20 it. The way that works is that you'd work in partnership with him,=20 probably grabbing any version bumps and testing them, making any ebuild=20 and patch changes necessary, and then forwarding it to wired to actually=20 make the commit. That saves him time to work on other packages, and may=20 well get new mc versions in the tree much faster, especially if you=20 follow upstream closely and he doesn't. That's a great way to learn the ins and outs of Gentoo and work toward=20 general Gentoo devhood as well, if you're interested. If not, you can=20 simply continue user-maintaining the single package you are interested=20 in. Either way, it benefits both Gentoo and other users (like me) of the= =20 package. Of course, that's all conditional on you and he forging a good working=20 relationship, but most devs won't complain about being offered some help.= =20 =3D:^) --=20 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