Re: [gentoo-dev] Is there any way I can help with pull requests?

2018-10-13 Thread Mikle Kolyada
On 13.10.2018 15:59, James Le Cuirot wrote: [snip] > Such contributions also frequently have issues as the authors have not done > the developer quizzes. We try to guide contributors through the > necessary changes but this can lead to fatigue on both sides. Quizzes are irrelevant, a person

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is there any way I can help with pull requests?

2018-10-13 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 8:59 AM James Le Cuirot wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 13:28:02 +0200 > Ralph Seichter wrote: > > > Is there any way I could help the Gentoo team? Any vacancies that need > > to be filled, or work that needs to be done? > > Following what I said above, we need more actual

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is there any way I can help with pull requests?

2018-10-13 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 13.10.18 20:00, Michał Górny wrote: > For example, in the recent period proxy-maint's backlog didn't really > go beyond 7 days, and we're rather capable of getting through it all. Glancing at my own open pull requests, it looks different (opened 15 and 25 days ago, respectively). That is not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is there any way I can help with pull requests?

2018-10-13 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 2018-10-13 at 13:28 +0200, Ralph Seichter wrote: > Looking at the number of open pull requests (some of them my own), I > wonder if Gentoo has become a bit of a victim of its own success as far > as contributions are concerned. It's not really as much problem as it seems. For example, in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is there any way I can help with pull requests?

2018-10-13 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 13.10.2018 14:57, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: > Looking forward to see your Gentoo developer bug in near future! :-) I've sent an application to the recruiters' email address. We shall see what they think. ;-) -Ralph

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is there any way I can help with pull requests?

2018-10-13 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 13.10.18 14:57, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: > Please read https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/become-developer/ I already did that months ago. ;-) At that time, I was not certain if I had enough spare time to become involved enough to make going through the process of becoming a Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is there any way I can help with pull requests?

2018-10-13 Thread Tomas Mozes
You can review the PRs and try to remove common errors before the devs check it. Then they don't have to correct the same mistakes again. I don't mean you do the corrections, you just suggest them to the PR authors so they probably won't repeat them again. Common stuff like: - using latest eapi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is there any way I can help with pull requests?

2018-10-13 Thread Corentin “Nado” Pazdera
October 13, 2018 3:00 PM, "James Le Cuirot" wrote: > On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 13:28:02 +0200 > Ralph Seichter wrote: > >> Looking at the number of open pull requests (some of them my own), I >> wonder if Gentoo has become a bit of a victim of its own success as far >> as contributions are

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is there any way I can help with pull requests?

2018-10-13 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 13:28:02 +0200 Ralph Seichter wrote: > Looking at the number of open pull requests (some of them my own), I > wonder if Gentoo has become a bit of a victim of its own success as far > as contributions are concerned. I've said as much, at least with regards to the addition of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is there any way I can help with pull requests?

2018-10-13 Thread Thomas Deutschmann
Hi, in the end, only Gentoo developer can help because they have to do the final review and are the only one who can merge. But you can become a Gentoo developer! Please read https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/become-developer/ As Gentoo developer you could join Gentoo's Proxy Maintainers

[gentoo-dev] Is there any way I can help with pull requests?

2018-10-13 Thread Ralph Seichter
Looking at the number of open pull requests (some of them my own), I wonder if Gentoo has become a bit of a victim of its own success as far as contributions are concerned. Is there any way I could help the Gentoo team? Any vacancies that need to be filled, or work that needs to be done? -Ralph

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Global use 'jemalloc'

2018-10-13 Thread Michał Górny
Apparently this thing is getting common: jemalloc - Use dev-libs/jemalloc for memory management 28 uses: app-admin/rsyslog: Use dev-libs/jemalloc for allocations. app-editors/neovim: Use dev-libs/jemalloc for allocations app-office/libreoffice: Use dev-libs/jemalloc for allocations

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Global use flag: opus

2018-10-13 Thread Michał Górny
Hi, This time really verified it: opus - Enable Opus audio codec support 28 consistent uses: app-emulation/virtualbox: Adds support for the Opus codec via media- libs/opus games-fps/urbanterror: Use opus as sound codec kde-apps/kwave: Enable Opus audio codec support

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Global use flag: webp

2018-10-13 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 2018-10-13 at 11:19 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > Hi, > > Next suggestion: > > webp - Enable support for webp image format (usually via > media-libs/libwebp) > Nevermind, it is global already; it seems my script didn't detect that correctly. -- Best regards, Michał Górny

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Global use flag: webp

2018-10-13 Thread Michał Górny
Hi, Next suggestion: webp - Enable support for webp image format (usually via media-libs/libwebp) It's used consistently in 24 packages: app-text/tesseract: Enable support for webp image format. dev-games/aseprite: Enable webp image format support dev-lang/php: Enable webp

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Global use flag 'zip'

2018-10-13 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 22:09:52 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to propose adding the following global USE flag: > > zip - Enable support for .zip archives The file format is called ZIP. Kind regards, jer