On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 19:58:03 +0300 Consus <con...@ftml.net> wrote: > Github bot warns > you that contributing new packages to the main repo is low priority and > probably no one will help you,
Maybe that's a misinterpretation. Gentoo workflow isn't oriented around Pull requests, Pull requests are generally a mechanism used to allow users and other non-developers to "assist". People who are dev's generally don't use PR's for their work, although there are a few exceptions to this because the PR facility allows for various "pre-testing" and "I'm not the guy in charge of this, so I better let the guy who is look at it first" situations. And somewhat as a result, contributions via the PR mechanism *are* low priority. Not because nobody is around to do it, but because either we have more important things to do, *or*, sometimes there are things we must do *before* handling PR's. Sometimes even people filing bugs for "please update this" serves no purpose, because we're probably already aware there's an update, its just a matter of time constraints and priorities. I would argue we're actually more on top of, and aware of, things that need to be done than users might imagine. Its just largely invisible because you have to go *looking* for it, and you have to actually communicate with dev's to really see what's going on, because sometimes, its all in their head. Just the perception from a portage consumption point *may* look like a thing is stagnated "because no recent changes". If you were to look at portage, you might think no work is happening on the rust front, beyond the language itself being there. But lots of research and experimental work is happening on overlays, working out how to do a thing right, before burdening users with it. ( And there's also the fact that properly reviewing a PR often requires the same work investment to merely verify it, as if you were to do the work yourself without a PR, which serves as a bit of a disincentive to care about PRs )
pgpBzcxy8lluv.pgp
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
