[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-10 Thread Steve Long
Natanael Copa wrote: What you didn't need to be a gentoo dev to be a package maintainer? Lets say anyone could be marked as maintainer in an ebuild. When there is a bug, the package maintainer fixes the bug and submits an updated ebuild/patch whatever. This person has no commit access.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 04:09 +, Duncan wrote: Two and potentially far worse, you have the demotivation problem. Picking on a rather active dev as a prime example, Flameeyes' Gentoo/alt-freebsd is certainly a minority arch, one that he spends a decent amount of time on that could arguably

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-05 Thread Christian 'Opfer' Faulhammer
Tach Thomas, 0x2B859DE3 (PGP-PK-ID) Thomas Cort schrieb: Every developer should have access to at least 1 Gentoo system. They should also be able to determine if something is stable or not. It would cut down on the number of keyword/stable bugs if developers

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-05 Thread Christian 'Opfer' Faulhammer
Tach Ioannis, 0x2B859DE3 (PGP-PK-ID) Ioannis Aslanidis schrieb: - Make every dev a member of at least 1 arch team That's a sound idea, that way some herds (see KDE) won't have to be searching for testers in every arch because _strangely_ one of the most daily

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-05 Thread Josh Saddler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian 'Opfer' Faulhammer wrote: Most devs run ~arch Says who? Did you pull that fact out of a hat, or something? Do you have any hard numbers to back that statement? Let's have an informal poll some time: I know I don't run ~arch, and there are

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-05 Thread Christian 'Opfer' Faulhammer
Tach Josh, 0x2B859DE3 (PGP-PK-ID) Josh Saddler schrieb: Christian 'Opfer' Faulhammer wrote: Most devs run ~arch Says who? Did you pull that fact out of a hat, or something? Do you have any hard numbers to back that statement? A lot of devs run ~arch is more

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-04 Thread Duncan
Bryan Østergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:53:52 +: On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 10:36:37AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: I really want to see another checking of the CVS logs (without names, of course) to see just how much work how

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-04 Thread Duncan
Thomas Cort [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:44:07 -0400: My view is that currently we cannot offer the same level of support for the minority arches as the majority arches because we don't have enough people involved. I think that spreading