I could also sacrify some time to help - I'm not much of a programmer I fear, but testing or writing a small script every know and then is certainly not beyond me.
On Tuesday 16 October 2007, Jukka Ruohonen wrote: > Perhaps these "support teams" would also narrow the (assumed) threshold of > participating in the overlay. (I see that "herd testers" are mentioned in > the overlay, but as a long-time Gentoo user I have no knowledge what these > testers are; this also demonstrates the little obscurity that surrounds all > overlays from an end-user perspective.) Full ack to that, that's what things look like for me. I admit that I'm not following developments on gentoo so closely anymore, since I simply do not have the time, but even so, it can be a bit confusing to find one's way around the numerous overlays, official and not-so-official homepages and whatnot. As Jukka expresses it, maybe that is just perceived but that doesn't make it less real. On Tuesday 16 October 2007, Sébastien Fabbro wrote: > So what could we do to get more help: call for new recruits, convince > more devs to join the sci herd, get proxied packages, more overlay > maintainers? For me personally, I'd like to see something like a ToDo or AdoptAnEbuild list somewhere, perhaps sorted by complexity, so that people that are interested can more easily try their hands on it. Just pointing people to bugs.g.o feels a little bit like Augeias' stable cleaning with no idea where to begin. Moreover I guess there are plenty of things that do not have a bug report attached to them - stuff like hunting down the changed dependencies of a new software release or testing the stability of a simple version bump and things the like. That might create a bit more overhead for 'real' developers but it might also lower the treshhold for new people. Just my two cents. Cheers Markus
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