2010/1/12 Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org>: > 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 ? :)
Proxy-maintainership should be given a MUCH higher profile in Gentoo, in my opinion. It is a virtually unknown option. Another thing that works in my experience, but this is up to the herds/projects, is having an official overlay where devs and users can work closely together. This allows users to commit ebuilds and patches, while there is quality control by the involved devs. Devs can keep an eye on such overlays and move stuff to portage when they are ready. Sunrise is the most obvious example for this, for maintainer-wanted packages. But it works equally well for us in the Qt project with qting-edge, and I believe kde and pro-audio have the same experience. But I also believe we need a better structure to handle maintainer-needed, maintainer-wanted and nominally maintained but ignored packages. Maybe we should form a team, which would be dedicated to take care of such things, and which would have a review policy for user submitted ebuilds and patches in bugzilla. A bit like treecleaners, but bringing life instead of death. What do you think? Cheers, -- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) ______________________________________________________
