On 28/02/2017 12:02, Ray Donnelly wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 1:13 AM, Alan W. Irwin >> >> Of course, one can infer simply from a comparison of the title with >> actual contents of >> <https://github.com/msys2/msys2/wiki/Contributing-to-MSYS2> that >> building and creating packages does contribute to MSYS2, but the >> current situation is (as far as I can tell) that is not explicitly >> stated anywhere on the three pages above. >> > > More people writing recipes is good, adding new ones is good but it > increases the packaging burden on Alexey. New people coming in and > helping out with existing recipes so that the current developers don't > have as many to deal with is great. My hope was that more developers > from upstream projects would see MSYS2 as a way to satisfy the dire > need for good package dependency management and therefore elect to > maintain recipes for their projects in MSYS2 directly, but that's not > happened as much as I'd like. >
Contributing information needs to outline how a person can fit into the project, what roles are available and what the demands of each role are. A simple example is how to manage a single package for the project, the FreeBSD's Contributing to ports [1] is a nice example of this. CI is critically important. Sending notifications when a package breaks to the person responsible distributes the load and if a package never breaks or needs little attention it means the person responsible does not need to track and monitor the current status on a daily or weekly basis. If someone can see looking after a package is easy and not time consuming they will be more willing to step forward. There will be packages that are fragile and time consuming and in this case working with the upstream project is needed to make it easier downstream. Chris [1] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/ports-contributing.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Msys2-users mailing list Msys2-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users
