On 07/12/16 01:59, james wrote: > On 12/06/2016 07:29 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 01:13:12PM -0500, james wrote: >>> A while back, we we were promised an email channel for gentoo-proxy >>> folks that did not get on well with IRC. It never materialized, >> The mail alias [email protected] (same alias as proxy-maintainers@) >> has 22 people on it. It was created 2013/09/26. >> >> The list [email protected] was created 2016/05/29. >> I don't see much usage of it, nobody has emailed since August. >> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-proxy-maint/ >> >> The request for it was filed and tracked here: >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581370 >> >> How exactly is that never materialized? >> > > > I subscribe on 6/23/2016:: > > From:: [email protected] > > [email protected] > > > > Hi, this is the Mlmmj program managing the > <[email protected]> mailing list. > > Somebody (and we hope it was you) has requested that your email address > <[email protected]> be added to the list, without mail delivery. This > means you will not receive any posts to the list, but you are > considered a member. This means, for instance, you are able to post to > a list which only subscribers may post to, while you follow the list > using a web archive or another subscribed email address. > > To confirm you want to do this, please send a message to > <gentoo-proxy-maint+confsub-nomail-75dc5ad5188e6314-garftd=verizon....@lists.gentoo.org> > > which can usually be done simply by replying to this message. The subject > and the body of the message can be anything. > > After doing so, you should receive a reply informing you that the > operation > succeeded. > > > And here is the reply:: > > gentoo-proxy-maint+confsub-nomail-75dc5ad5188e6314-garftd=verizon....@lists.gentoo.org > > > on 6/23/2016 10:21am > > ................................................. > > > > > So I just now sent email to : > [email protected] > > > NO answer on this attempt. ON this page:: > https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/mailing-lists/all-lists.html > > All I see is: gentoo-proxy-maint > > Am I subscribe? Did I miss the exact syntax to get subscribed? > > Perhaps [email protected] needs to be listed with the rest of > the mailing lists? > > > > let's see if that one goes through (nothing after 10 minutes). > > > My goal is to read that list and publish documents on what is exactly > needed to get dev status. I think it's not a good idea to force folks > to use irc to learn about proxy-maint, get help on ebuilds when you > need it so there should be a nice set of document and tests one can > work through, without intervention. Then take the quizes and be > treated like an outcast for a while, before being able to work the > portage tree. I am not interested in anything core to gentoo. I am > extremely > interested in building minimized cluster ebuilds and wrapping them up > in stage-4s for ease of installation. Really, nothing threatening at all. > > > > I already finished up both quiz, including the second(exit) one, but > there was a few question that were incomplete. > That was all right befor Goktuk did his revision work, so I'd like to > answer the updated quized, as most of the questions, when I answered, > were not even up to EAPI-5. Where are the quiz questions. > > > Oh yea, I emailed those quizes timely to one of the devs I was working > with, and got no answer. (sorry, not going to identify that dev). So I > prefer to answer the latest quizes; you guys can figure out who I > should send those to. > > > > > I never got any mail from the list. I could see a few postings via > gmane.org. Sure, gmane is mostly dysfunctional now. I never saw or > any information on the second list.... > > > James > With the creation of the Mentors project (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Mentors) a bit of clarification has occurred to help prospective developers outside the IRC and/or proxy-maintainers project). The Recruiters project page contains links to the current quizzes (linked therein).
hth.
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