On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 23:27:14 +0100 "Gerhard W. Gruber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >Not really. Contributed ebuilds will generally be accepted pretty | >quickly so long as they meet the following criteria: | >* They follow Policy | | What exactly does that mean?
There are documents on gentoo.org that explain the requirements here. To start with: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-howto.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ebuild-submit.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/policy.xml http://dev.gentoo.org/~liquidx/ebuildmistakes.html | >* The package is maintained upstream | | What exactly does that mean? Exactly what it says. | >* A developer is willing to maintain it | | How do you know this in advance? You might not... If you're worried, try to find an interested developer beforehand. | >That hasn't been rejected. It's just that no developer is willing to | >accept responsibility for it. | | Or do you mean with developer, a developer from gentoo? Yeah, someone with sufficient cvs access to Gentoo's tree to maintain the ebuilds in portage. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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