Re: [gentoo-proxy-maint] Proxy-maint situation and future

[Ralph Seichter <abbot@monksofcool.net>]

* Michał Górny:

> Do you have any specific ideas on how we could improve the situation?

I know too little about all the steps required on the developer side
when adding a new package, even though I have authored some new packages

However, to free up developer capacity, it seems to me that giving the
volunteer contributors more responsibility for simple changes like
version bumps should help. It should be possible to automatically
determine if the previous ebuild was simply copied, which is what I do
when version bumping, and remains otherwise unchanged.

You already mentioned your GURU idea. Having a gitolite-backed
repository where volunteers can commit simple changes if they are listed
as maintainers in metadata.xml, and having these changes integrated by
some automatism, might help, even if it does not address brand new
packages.

-Ralph