В Чтв, 04/09/2008 в 10:35 +0200, Marcus Priesch пишет: > how much effort is there to be the maintainer of the gentoo ebuild ?? - ... > how is the procedure to mark something stable in the portage tree - how > much must be tested ?!?!
It's hard for me to tell you how much effort requires maintaining/AT work as I've never worked on/maintained X11 packages while the answer really varies from package to package. Some packages are easy to maintain, some require lot of work. In general I don't think that in this area Gentoo differs from any other distribution. You'll need to do version bumps (which assumes that you've tested package), fix newcomming bugs and follow general Gentoo progress to use new features portage provides. Gentoo specifics in this area is that you'll have fix build bugs rather often, so you'll have to know how to fix Makefiles if required. Also new gcc/glibc versions sometimes introduce non-compatible changes and normally we'll have to deal with them earlier then other distributions. Arch teams[1] members emerge package with different USE flags (merging with all possible USE flags combinations sometimes is impossible but at least with most common is must) and run package, looking for bugs/problems. Of course time required depends from package to package. > if you could shed some light on this, there ould be a maintainer soon ;) Well, you need to be developer to maintain package. But it's possible for you to find proxy maintainer - developer which will review your work and commit it to the tree. Unfortunately this side of our communication with users is not well documented but if you wish to work like that you can always contact teams/herds which maintain packages with similar functionality. If you interested how to help Gentoo with other packages or in other areas contact me off-list and I'll tell you possibilities. Speaking about xf86-video-openchrome driver it's already in the tree. Jeroen Roovers bumped it and although more tests are required I think this package will be in good shape in nearest future. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/at/ http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/x86/at.xml -- Peter. _______________________________________________ openchrome-users mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users Main page: http://www.openchrome.org Wiki: http://wiki.openchrome.org User Forum: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=1
