Am 2015-09-16 um 02:37 schrieb Rich Freeman: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robb...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 02:13:34PM +0200, hasufell wrote: >>> On 09/15/2015 02:00 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: >>>> If you have interest in this package then you can do one or more of: >>>> * become a Gentoo developer (ha-ha) >>> hmm >> For background, SGW did work on becoming a developer once before, but he >> mainly found he was short on time to handle more than the packages that >> he had a business interest in. >> >> I used to proxy-commit changes from him to the Amanda package, but found >> myself short on time to test them as well in the long run. >> > > To be constructive, a github pull-request is probably the most > effective way to get a proxy maintainer to notice your work right now > and commit it for you. Bugs assigned to proxy-maintainers@ might also > work. Believe it or not people will actually use ebuilds you attach > whether or not they get into the tree. Another option is to publish > your own overlay, and that makes a good foundation for a pull-request > anyway and it is easy to use for those who do want to use the overlay > directly.
Well, my ebuilds for www-apps/otrs are in here already: https://github.com/stefangweichinger/gentoo-overlay/tree/master/www-apps/otrs (the other packages in that overlay aren't that up to date ... simply some work collected over the years) I only added beta4 yesterday. > And do consider signing up as a proxied maintainer for a package > you're interested in. If you do establish a long-term relationship > with a package it probably will make devs more willing to commit your > changes without a lot of testing on their part. I may do that if something gets moving around this package, yes. Where would I have to sign up? I am a proxied maintainer for app-backup/amanda already, as Robin mentioned.
