Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to contribute ebuilds?

[Victor <victor@enise.org>]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 17:11:54 +0000 (UTC)
James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> Victor <victor <at> enise.org> writes:
> 
> 
> > I have a couple of ebuilds for some software not in main tree,
> > mainly emacs and python modules.
> > What is the preferred way to contribute them without becoming a
> > Gentoo Developer?  
> 
> I think the preferred method (it takes time to go down the gentoo-dev
> or gentoo-proxy-maintainer pathways) is to setup a github acccount
> and post your body of work there because github makes it easy for
> folks to collaborate with you and your work.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Should I post them to bugzilla or maybe send to `python' and `emacs'
> > overlays (if so, how?), or `sunrise' overlay? Or create my own
> > overlay?  
> 
> Yes, that way, we get immediate access to the ebuilds to test them
> out and give you feedback. Put up some details, related to these
> packages, either in bgo or a github/blog, particularly if they are
> part of a theme you are pursuing.

Thanks.

> Who knows, maybe you'll also want to bring turbogears2 to gentoo?
> That would be very, bery cool!   Turbogears1 use to be part of the
> packages available. Turbogears2 is very cool [1].

I've never used turbogears, I'll take a note :)