On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:19:14 -0400 Luis Francisco Araujo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The users explicitly compromise to (just to make it clear): [1,2,3,4] People who participate in open projects like Gentoo come and go. What happens if/when the proxy maintainer decides to leave? Who will take care of the package? Maybe the mailing list could also be used to find users to proxy maintain abandoned packages? > I know there already exist some developers working as proxy, well, i > appreciate if they got any comment or observation about this idea. This > is just a way of giving some organization to this kind of cooperative > mechanism at some degree. And an 'official' representation inside Gentoo > if we agree with it. I work with a user (Kai Huuhko) to maintain media-sound/quodlibet, media-libs/mutagen, and media-plugins/quodlibet-*. I have a dev overlay on overlays.gentoo.org where Kai and I both have commit access. We both work on the ebuilds in the overylay and exchange ideas over e-mail. After the ebuilds are complete and tested, I commit them to the official tree. Kia helps with bugs too. So far it has worked very well for us and we haven't had any problems with the arrangement. Having a helper saves me time and energy, which allows me do other Gentoo related tasks. -Thomas
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