RE: [gentoo-dev] Over-reliance of Gentoo projects on overlays

Things may, instead, arise from deficiencies in the modularity of ebuilds or portage itself. Perhaps you should mention the specific bathwater you'd like to see thrown out, and, from there, folks can help determine where, if anywhere, is the baby? -gmt

RE: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

to, if I take on proxy maintainer-ship? Also, of how proxy maintainer-ship actually works? I.e.: would I need some particular person to agree to be my commit-bitch or can I just sign off on patches, somehow, and expect a pool of commit-bitches to magically push commits for me? -gmt

RE: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

I just sign off on patches, somehow, and expect a pool of commit-bitches to magically push commits for me? -gmt I think you will need to simply contact proxy-maint people (CCing them) http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/proxy-maintainers/ Maybe I shouldn't do this just yet. I need to figure

RE: [gentoo-dev] Temporary DevRel actions for CoC violations

and friendly community, -gmt attachment: winmail.dat

RE: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 0/3] Add cross-prefix support

to move deltas from master to prefix-master. -gmt

[gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v2: fix commitmsg thinko] portage.versions: Drop support for non-EAPI "cvs." version prefix

From: "Gregory M. Turner" This feature was introduced 12 years ago in (the cvs commit corresponding to the git commit) 9f3a46665c. There are a lot of reasons not to continue to support it: o PMS permits no such prefix o Nobody uses it (perhaps nobody /ever/ used it) o

[gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] portage.versions: Drop support for non-EAPI "cvs." version prefix

From: "Gregory M. Turner" This feature was introduced 12 years ago in (the cvs commit corresponding to the git commit) 9f3a46665c. There are a lot of reasons not to continue to support it: o EAPI permits no such prefix o Nobody uses it (perhaps nobody /ever/ used it) o