[gentoo-dev] Voting on adding Leechcraft to the tree
Hi devs, I got a request to add Leechcraft (http://leechcraft.org/) to the portage tree. Leechcraft is modular internet client with many plugins. Main problem with it is that it has very few (less than 5, i suppose) active maintainers, and is needed by very limited amount of users (mainly friends of project lead). So, i want to use gentoo-dev ML as tool to 1) advert Leechcraft to larger audience and 2) ask Gentoo developers and users: is it worth to be in tree? If there are 5 votes for Leechcraft and no unfixable complaints from other devs, i will start adding Leechcraft to tree. Here you can see existing ebuilds and other info: http://code.google.com/p/rion-overlay/source/browse/#hg%2Fnet-misc http://code.google.com/p/rion-overlay/source/browse/eclass/leechcraft.eclass Contacts of the project lead and supposed package maintaner in gentoo (with me as proxy): d34df...@jabber.ru (XMPP).
Re: [gentoo-dev] Voting on adding Leechcraft to the tree
Sounds like something to put in an overlay. On Jul 20, 2011, at 10:05 AM, Maxim Koltsov maksbo...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi devs, I got a request to add Leechcraft (http://leechcraft.org/) to the portage tree. Leechcraft is modular internet client with many plugins. Main problem with it is that it has very few (less than 5, i suppose) active maintainers, and is needed by very limited amount of users (mainly friends of project lead). So, i want to use gentoo-dev ML as tool to 1) advert Leechcraft to larger audience and 2) ask Gentoo developers and users: is it worth to be in tree? If there are 5 votes for Leechcraft and no unfixable complaints from other devs, i will start adding Leechcraft to tree. Here you can see existing ebuilds and other info: http://code.google.com/p/rion-overlay/source/browse/#hg%2Fnet-misc http://code.google.com/p/rion-overlay/source/browse/eclass/leechcraft.eclass Contacts of the project lead and supposed package maintaner in gentoo (with me as proxy): d34df...@jabber.ru (XMPP).
Re: [gentoo-dev] Voting on adding Leechcraft to the tree
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:05:54 +0400 Maxim Koltsov maksbo...@gentoo.org wrote: So, i want to use gentoo-dev ML as tool to 1) advert Leechcraft to larger audience #gentoo-spam and 2) ask Gentoo developers and users: is it worth to be in tree? If there are 5 votes for Leechcraft and no unfixable complaints from other devs, i will start adding Leechcraft to tree. You can add everything, even if you alone use it. Just make sure it works. And maintain it. Here you can see existing ebuilds and other info: http://code.google.com/p/rion-overlay/source/browse/#hg%2Fnet-misc http://code.google.com/p/rion-overlay/source/browse/eclass/leechcraft.eclass A single package is not suitable for its own eclass. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Voting on adding Leechcraft to the tree
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:05:54 +0400, Maxim Koltsov wrote: Hi devs, I got a request to add Leechcraft (http://leechcraft.org/) to the portage tree. Leechcraft is modular internet client with many plugins. Main problem with it is that it has very few (less than 5, i suppose) active maintainers, and is needed by very limited amount of users (mainly friends of project lead). So, i want to use gentoo-dev ML as tool to 1) advert Leechcraft to larger audience and 2) ask Gentoo developers and users: is it worth to be in tree? If there are 5 votes for Leechcraft and no unfixable complaints from other devs, i will start adding Leechcraft to tree. Here you can see existing ebuilds and other info: http://code.google.com/p/rion-overlay/source/browse/#hg%2Fnet-misc http://code.google.com/p/rion-overlay/source/browse/eclass/leechcraft.eclass Contacts of the project lead and supposed package maintaner in gentoo (with me as proxy): d34df...@jabber.ru (XMPP). There are no restrictions based on popularity of a package being added to the portage tree. As a matter of fact, if even only you, yourself, used the package it is still valid to add to the tree provided someone is adequately maintaining it. You do get that privilege as a Gentoo Developer - the meta-distro is yours. -Jeremy
Re: [gentoo-dev] Voting on adding Leechcraft to the tree
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:29, Michał Górny wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:05:54 +0400 Maxim Koltsov wrote: and 2) ask Gentoo developers and users: is it worth to be in tree? If there are 5 votes for Leechcraft and no unfixable complaints from other devs, i will start adding Leechcraft to tree. You can add everything, even if you alone use it. Just make sure it works. And maintain it. there it is -mike
Re: [gentoo-dev] Voting on adding Leechcraft to the tree
Hi! I'm one of LeechCraft developers, and Maxim asked me to assist him in resolving any questions regarding the app should they occur. I'm also using Gentoo and maintain the ebuilds in the rion overlay, so I hope I'd be able to assist in resolving corresponding issues as well. Seems like the only issue that needs clarification now is the number of packages and the need in separate eclass. Actually, there are 32 ebuilds for now (and new will be added as new modules are written), and the eclass contains some common procedures for them. And Maxim gave a link only to net-misc/ category in his original message, while related ebuilds are also in www-client/, www-misc/, virtual/ categories, for example. And, well, while he was true regarding the amount of active developers (we've got around 4-6 of them who regularly contribute new code), seems like he was a bit pessimistic regarding the popularity, but that's rather unimportant issue, according to Gentoo's policies. -- Georg Rudoy LeechCraft — http://leechcraft.org
Re: [gentoo-dev] Voting on adding Leechcraft to the tree
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:10, Georg Rudoy wrote: Seems like the only issue that needs clarification now is the number of packages and the need in separate eclass. Actually, there are 32 ebuilds for now (and new will be added as new modules are written), and the eclass contains some common procedures for them. sounds reasonable then for an eclass seems like he was a bit pessimistic regarding the popularity, but that's rather unimportant issue, according to Gentoo's policies. we're a pretty free wheelin' bunch. maintain your stuff and dont break other people and you should be good to go. -mike
