On Tuesday 12 January 2010 21:40:37 Arnaud Launay wrote:
> Le Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 08:30:26PM +0200, Markos Chandras a écrit:
> > So if you want a package, plz take care of it :)
> 
> From a "user" point of view, having submitted ebuilds, patches
> ideas and questions here and there on bugs.go, I must admit I end
> up putting up my "contributions" on my local /usr/local/portage
> because it never makes it to the official tree.
> 
> I love Gentoo, but sometimes I feel like I'm using a debian stable :)
> 
> I do not say everything should be bloody-edge at all times, but
> as a hoster, I use a lot of those so-called "servers" -- apache,
> mysql, cyrus-imapd, inn, postfix, amavisd, maia (which has a
> working, if not perfect, ebuild standing in bugs.go for years now
> -- #130068 -- and which is in "maintainer-needed" status), etc) ,
> and I have to put them under our local tree to use them.
> 
If you feel like it, become a proxy-maintainer and poke a developer to put 
your ebuilds on tree. Have you ever heard of that ? :)
> For example, I've one for pondus, a very small gnome app which
> tracks your weight... I never bothered submitting it to bgo.
> 
Same rule applies here
> I wonder how much time flies before users begin to stop posting
> their corrections to bugs.go and keep them local, because they
> never get committed.

>       Arnaud.
> 

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Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
Gentoo Linux Developer
Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org

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