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 having to go thru the long process of becoming a dev
> 
> Users can (and do) attach patches to any bug in bugzilla. When applying 
> such patches, the committing dev hopefully checks the patch and makes 
> sure it's clean, so he already is the kind of proxy you are asking for.
> 
> -- 

maybe he more means having a "working relationship" with people rather
than sending them to attach patches to bugzilla. make it more personal
than clinical
circumventing the requirement for an AT position, a casual "i give you
patches as i come across problems on my box, can you take care of them"
relationship for people who can and will contribute occasionally, w/o
the time to take on a dev position w/o commit access (aka Arch Tester)
like the people you hang out with on irc even, the ones that help other
users, or the kind you see active on forums, take their occational
patch/ebuild
like less red tape, more acceptance of the occasional contribution

how about that as "proxy"?

Daniel
 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Simon Stelling
> Gentoo/AMD64 Developer

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