On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 17:13 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > With the increase in developer and project overlays, I see the > possibility for reducing work needed to maintain many packages. As > Natanael Copa, it would be nice for him to be able to maintain packages > without having CVS access. The idea of formalizing and promoting "proxy > developers" has come up a few times before, and I think it is a great > idea. Work is done in the overlays, tested, improved, then committed > into the main tree once the kinks have been worked out. We get a > stronger core tree with fewer "developers" and a better interaction with > the community.
Some projects/herds already work this way with good results. We regularly get contributions from users that go into our overlay, get tested by us and other users and then get into the main portage tree some time later. We have a very low barrier to entry, it's just darcs record; darcs send. Then one of the devs reviews and applies/rejects the patch. Easy. For some of our ebuilds we already have de-facto "proxy developers". -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
