On Friday 19 December 2003 05:41, Michael Kunze wrote: > George Shapovalov wrote: > > Therefore, if you see a package that I touched in the last few month but > > that does not have a metadata, such package is free to be picked up if > > you are interested in maintaining it. > > Are you able to provide us with an actual list which are free to pick? > I'd like to help out.
Hm, I would say this is not really specific to me, as we have a bunch of packages that would benefit from more active maintainership (Gentoo grew pretty quickly recently, and while we've covered large parts of this expansion the strain still shows). Plus we are already have been into adding metadata and herding ebuilds for like half a year. Therefore I would say it is a safe bet to pick any package that does not have metatdata (and thus does not officially belong to certain herd or to specific developer). Usual rule applies: if there is apparent person who was taking care of the package (look through the ChangeLog) please contact him first. If its not that apparent (like random people touching it at different times), fire a message to this list or file a bug (preferably with update/fix, but mentioning your interest). As a non-dev you will have an additional step to go though (this was aimed mostly at other devs (basically to explain why I knowlingly did not add metadata to some of the stuff I touched) but help is always wellcome! ;)). I'd say, start maintaining things proactively - by submitting bugs fixing and/or updating things (after you did above checks). And then send a message to recruiting team (recruiters at gentoo.org, or contact seemant or avenj on irc.freenode.net on #gentoo), listing your activities. I am sure you will be a wellcome addition to the team! A final note: it is better to go in this order (first some submissions then application) as you will certainly be asked to show your work in some way, and this way is the most related and probably easiest ;). George -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
