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.
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