On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 15:45 -0800, Bret Towe wrote:
perhaps having some proxys of a sort that accept patchs and such
from trusted users that would commit fixes to portage would help.
similiar to the kernel format that way users can 'commit'/help out quickly
without having to go thru the long
Hi Daniel,
On 3/20/06, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of the bigger problems is that we have a huge user community who are
keen on contributing, but we have such a high barrier for entry to the
developer community. Quite rightly so - we're dealing with a live tree,
so we can't give
One of the bigger problems is that we have a huge user
community who are keen on contributing, but we have such
a high barrier for entry to the developer community.
There are the arch tester[1] projects (x86, amd64, ppc, alpha (soon),
and maybe others). Those lower the barrier a lot while
Bret Towe wrote:
perhaps having some proxys of a sort that accept patchs and such
from trusted users that would commit fixes to portage would help.
similiar to the kernel format that way users can 'commit'/help out quickly
without having to go thru the long process of becoming a dev
Users can
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 07:05, Alin Nastac wrote:
Yes, it is hard to find the right people. Yes, a big percentage of
recruiting team's time will be lost on useless additions/removals. But
the only solution is scaling the recruiting team to gentoo needs.
IMO recruiting team is too small to
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 11:07:37PM +, Daniel Drake wrote:
I'm looking for ideas - preferably big, drastic, shiny ones. Ignore any
issues relating to migration away from our current system. What would be
the _ideal_ way for Gentoo to handle contributions from anyone? (note
that I'm
Hi Brandon,
Brandon Edens wrote:
When I was a system administrator working with Gentoo I would've
appreciated a way to interact with the other Gentoo system
administrators. snip
You seem to be purely describing interactions with the user community
from a user perspective.
My post was about
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 13:09 +0100, Simon Stelling wrote:
Bret Towe wrote:
perhaps having some proxys of a sort that accept patchs and such
from trusted users that would commit fixes to portage would help.
similiar to the kernel format that way users can 'commit'/help out quickly
without
more open? I can't think of a decent way to phrase the subject line
which might make it sound it was coming from a native English
speaker..ahem..anyway:
I read a complimentary comment from a Gentoo user recently (can't
remember exactly where, so this is from memory). It was something along
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:07:37 + Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| One of the bigger problems is that we have a huge user community who
| are keen on contributing, but we have such a high barrier for entry
| to the developer community. Quite rightly so - we're dealing with a
| live tree,
On 3/21/06, Bret Towe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
perhaps having some proxys of a sort that accept patchs and such
from trusted users that would commit fixes to portage would help.
similiar to the kernel format that way users can 'commit'/help out quickly
without having to go thru the long
I'm not a gentoo dev (just a satisfied user), but I lurk on this list.
I was at PyCon last month. I would estimate that about 40% of the
people there ran linux on their laptops. The most popular distros
were gentoo and ubuntu. (Not this is not a scientific study, just my
observations from
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:58:07 +0100 Stefan Schweizer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| It doe snot need to be the portage-tree .. but an official
| user-overlay or contrib-overlay would definitely help to get a lot of
| people involved.
The problem is security. It's extremely easy to sneak some very
Monday, 20. March 2006 23:07, Daniel Drake Ви написали:
I'm looking for ideas - preferably big, drastic, shiny ones. Ignore any
issues relating to migration away from our current system. What would be
the _ideal_ way for Gentoo to handle contributions from anyone?
Any ideas?
Heh, and that bug
A quick update.
Please use this link for the proposal instead of the one listed in original
post in the bug:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~george/epsp/proposal.html
The files have been migrated to my gentoo space, as proper. I just added
comment to the bug and I'll put up some remonder at the place
George-
Not sure if you have seen this or not. Check out Conary [1] from
rPath. Think of it as Rpm+Ebuild+Distributed. It's done by some
people who used to be at Redhat and in one of the whitepapers, they
specifically mention portage/ebuild.
-matt
1 - http://wiki.conary.com/FrontPage
On
Well,
I think a lot of what I've been thinking recently has already been said
by Daniel. I'm actually in the middle of being inducted and I'm just
concerned that I'm going to get extra responsibility without any real
positive aspects for me. I don't really *want* access to check into
m h wrote:
I'm not a gentoo dev (just a satisfied user), but I lurk on this list.
I was at PyCon last month. I would estimate that about 40% of the
people there ran linux on their laptops. The most popular distros
were gentoo and ubuntu. (Not this is not a scientific study, just my
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 12:32, Alec Warner wrote:
m h wrote:
I'm not a gentoo dev (just a satisfied user), but I lurk on this list.
I was at PyCon last month. I would estimate that about 40% of the
people there ran linux on their laptops. The most popular distros
were gentoo and
Daniel Drake wrote:
We have a large expense on both sides when adding a developer to the
project. I personally have lost developer candidates, undoubtedly more
technically experienced than myself, who simply did not have the time
to go through a month-long recruitment process which involved
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