On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Andrew D Kirch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeremy Olexa wrote: >> >> Andrew D Kirch wrote: >> <snip all> >> >> Good points, I take it that you have found a mentor and are becoming a dev >> to drive this project then? >> >> -Jeremy > > I've spoken in the past with both Elfyn McBratney, and Homer Parker. I have > also submitted quite a few ebuilds via the bugs.gentoo.org system. I have > decided that I'm pretty much not willing to fight the uphill battle with the > red tape that presently exists at Gentoo. I found a problem, and wrote up a > pretty sensible, and not difficult to implement solution for a problem that > is both negatively affecting the code base Gentoo maintains, the quality of > all FOSS code, and that has the potential to embarrass the Gentoo > development community. > > Andrew
Ok, well.. If you have extra time available to write up a solution for IMO, a non-issue, then you have time to devote to "dev stuff" - but, if you don't want to become a dev then I would rather you didn't anyway. Put it this way, maybe some of us have decided that our time could be better used fixing Gentoo than fighting the uphill battle with the red tape that presently exists at $UPSTREAM. It is a two-way street for everyone in the FOSS world. Like I said, I like your points. Personally, I try to submit everything upstream but I only maintain very few ebuilds. I think this is common practice amongst Gentoo devs. List replies preferred. Have a good day, -Jeremy
