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

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

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.

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]. 

> 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.


hth,
James

[1] http://www.turbogears.org/current-status.html#