On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:35:45 +0100 Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 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? > I agree with the creation of a maintainer-needed team, but to be honest, all those packages ended in maintainer-needed by lack of manpower. Even with the manpower problem, there are people helping with those packages, such as Patrick, Samuli, Diego and myself. I am in the maintainer-needed CC so I always try to commit patches and do fixes to those packages, although lately I have not had much time available. So, if anyone have a patch for a maintainer-needed package, feel free to ping me :) Víctor
