[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn

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

Ben de Groot posted on Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:35:45 +0100 as excerpted:

> 2010/1/12 Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>:
>> If you feel like it, become a proxy-maintainer and poke a developer to
>> put your ebuilds on tree. Have you ever heard of that ? :)
> 
> Proxy-maintainership should be given a MUCH higher profile in Gentoo, in
> my opinion. It is a virtually unknown option.

Yay! =:^)

> Another thing that works in my experience, but this is up to the
> herds/projects, is having an official overlay where devs and users can
> work closely together.

Again! =:^)

> But I also believe we need a better structure to handle
> maintainer-needed, maintainer-wanted and nominally maintained but
> ignored packages. Maybe we should form a team, which would be dedicated
> to take care of such things, and which would have a review policy for
> user submitted ebuilds and patches in bugzilla. A bit like treecleaners,
> but bringing life instead of death. What do you think?

Well, sunrise was supposed to be that for packages not yet in the tree.  
The devs shepherding that work hard with the users doing the ebuilds to 
get them up to tree quality, so they're ready for devs to take on with 
little work (or to go into proxy maintainership), when it's that 
package's time.  I know I've used a handful of sunrise packages that 
ultimately ended up in the tree, which is pretty good, considering I 
don't even have the sunrise overlay enabled unless there's something I 
specifically want from it.

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