On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 05:08:29PM +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 15:47 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:39:50 +0200 Natanael Copa
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > | I'm initially only interested in maintaining packages where I'm the
> > | upstream maintainer as well. 
> > 
> > Ick. Rarely a good idea. That removes a layer of QA.
> 
> ok. whatever...
> 
> so, I have learned alot today.
> 
> * I can't become a proxy maintainer. (you guys will continue your
> "fight" if its a good or bad idea having proxy maintainers and meanwhile
> nothing will happen)
Yes you can. I'm a fan of proxy maintaining and would be happy to proxy
commits for you. Please poke me on irc.freenode.net (nick kloeri).
> 
> * It's a bad idea for me to become a dev since I only want to maintain
> stuff I know I will be able to maintain. (I cant start small and take
> more and more packages over time, when/if I feel I'm able to do more)
Devs only maintaining one or two packages rarely get the needed
experience to maintain a high QA imo. I think proxy maintaining in those
cases are a much better idea.
> 
> That leaves me with the conclution that its best to just continue to run
> my own local portage tree and submit bugreports once in a while and hope
> for the best, just like I have always been doing.
See above.

Regards,
Bryan Østergaard
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