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[65.0.95.182]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id b126sm790236ywd.3.2016.05.25.16.22.45 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 25 May 2016 16:22:45 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20160518134555.74bd3476.mgorny@gentoo.org> <5742896C.6080906@gmail.com> <3104079.IeJC12BQgj@peak> <574624FA.1010306@gentoo.org> From: Dale Message-ID: <574633C4.90708@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 18:22:44 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 SeaMonkey/2.38 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 In-Reply-To: <574624FA.1010306@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 08ae9a8d-067a-4cf3-abf0-b5c5c6224f89 X-Archives-Hash: f218226c603d2aaad9a81e528a0b7dae Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 05/25/2016 06:09 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> Well, considering the importance of gummiboot to some of us, I might b= e=20 >> willing to take it on - if I just knew a bit more about package mainte= nance.=20 >> As I've said many times in recent years, my days of coding expired abo= ut 25=20 >> years ago, and then it was in very different systems from Linux. >> > These days it's a lot easier to get practice because you don't have to > deal with CVS. If you clone our git repo as your $PORTDIR, then you can= > make your changes and `repoman commit` just like the rest of us. If > you're okay with Github, you can create pull requests there from that > same clone. > > You should probably read through the entire devmanual once, but there's= > no substitute for practice and asking questions. > > There are a lot of easy bugs open on bugs.gentoo.org that you could fix= > to get experience. If you fix something in a maintainer-needed package > and post a pull request, I don't see why we couldn't just merge it. > You'll get good feedback that way. In fact, in the worst case, if > gummiboot drops to maintainer-needed, you could fix bugs and make > version bumps that way without the commitment of being the maintainer. > > > My thinking is along the same lines as yours. Having anyone that is willing to help is likely much better than no one at all and the package ending up dying and leaving the tree all together. If someone can do some of the heavy lifting and just push the needed info to someone else who can push it into the tree, that should buy it some time at least.=20 Maybe at some point a official dev can step up.=20 The biggest thing, I didn't want it to get kicked out of the tree and then the people that use it here end up going "what the heck" because they didn't see it coming.=20 Me, I want to set up a very basic backup script on a cron job to copy from one local drive to another local drive. Even that little thing is a big deal for me. Don't even mention writing a ebuild within hearing range of me. ROFL I'm to old for that stuff now. ;-) Dale :-) :-)=20