From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7134313826A for ; Thu, 26 May 2016 08:17:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3771B234011; Thu, 26 May 2016 08:17:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost03c.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost03c.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.22]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10995234005 for ; Thu, 26 May 2016 08:17:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [81.108.251.46] (helo=mail.digimed.co.uk) by smarthost03c.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1b5qTW-0004KI-7e for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 May 2016 08:17:02 +0000 Received: from digimed.co.uk (fenchurch.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 75C324593FE for ; Thu, 26 May 2016 09:16:56 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 09:16:47 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot Message-ID: <20160526091647.519d3805@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <9ea7dd9f-c485-8b45-808e-5f88cdda726e@gentoo.org> References: <20160518134555.74bd3476.mgorny@gentoo.org> <5742896C.6080906@gmail.com> <3104079.IeJC12BQgj@peak> <574624FA.1010306@gentoo.org> <9ea7dd9f-c485-8b45-808e-5f88cdda726e@gentoo.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.13.2-142-g54ce0e (GTK+ 2.24.30; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/76N+mCyy8e2RI3ZM4kOgi2x"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Originating-smarthost03c-IP: [81.108.251.46] X-Archives-Salt: ac13a543-0c74-40a1-9dcc-09fef5b2d859 X-Archives-Hash: d74c4fa60f1f2303bc4bfad4a9079f9d --Sig_/76N+mCyy8e2RI3ZM4kOgi2x Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 26 May 2016 10:48:48 +1000, Sam Jorna wrote: > I'll also mention the Proxy Maintainers project[0] here. Yes this is > intended to facilitate people taking maintainership of a package, but my > point is that there is a project dedicated to facilitating contributors > without push access both in offering ebuilding support and committing > package changes. I've recently become a proxy maintainer at Sam's instigation, and with a lot of constructive help from him. It's not difficult even though it made me think a lot harder about what the ebuild was doing. If anyone it thinking about it, I'd recommend the experience. --=20 Neil Bothwick I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem. --Sig_/76N+mCyy8e2RI3ZM4kOgi2x Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAldGsO8ACgkQum4al0N1GQMElQCgpUr6p/2w0KdSMucSgBOKD2YD oOwAoJBXmMHc1j+AqmQDKA58SIcaKKCw =t7V3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/76N+mCyy8e2RI3ZM4kOgi2x--