On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 01:01:20PM +0200, Christian Andreetta wrote: > > Many users (and I'm both a dev *and* a user) just could do much for > Gentoo, but when you're interested in a niche sector package, you *don't > have other choices* but > > 1) an endless wait for an open bug > 2) becoming dev for the good of all :-) > 3) just use your personal overlay, without sharing the results of your > efforts. If the bug in 1) is still open, why updating it with your > latest patches/revision bumps? 4) Bash devs to add your ebuild 5) Use proxy maintaining (as been suggested several times)
Proxy maintaining already happens but some people claims not enough users and devs use this. Personally I'd love to see proxy maintaining advertised which would probably help proxy maintaining take off and offer a way for users to (fairly easy) contribute to the tree and be sure their ebuilds ends up in the tree. > > Statistically you end up to 3). We just need something to reduce this > "statistically". > See above. I'd love for more users to end up at 5). Regards, Bryan Østergaard -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
