On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 16:27:53 +0200 Yanestra wrote: > On 04/12/2015 03:08 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > Hi! I don't see such chaos :/ > Maybe you can explain what this maintainer / proxy maintainer / Sunrise > fuss is all about?
Maintainer is a Gentoo developers who maintains a package. Proxy maintainer is a Gentoo developer who proxies user maintaining a package. User is called a "proxied maintainer" in such case, that is probably what you meant. That is, if Gentoo user wants to help maintain a currently orphaned package (i.e. a package without maintainer or an officially maintained package, but suffering from serious issues where current maintainer can't keep up with all bugs/updates and needs help), he/she may maintain that package without becoming Gentoo developer, for details see: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers Sunrise is an overlay intended for user-submitted ebuilds reviewed by developers. By its spirit it is somewhat similar to proxy-maintainers project, but different in implementation and review process. There are other overlays available: some are official, some are user-maintained, so you may ask for your own personal overlay as well. Official overlays are usually used for a dedicated projects with narrow audience and/or as a staging grounds for packages before they will enter main Gentoo tree. And there is only one main Gentoo tree (also known as a "portage tree" due to historical reasons). There are multiple protocols via which this tree is available (cvs, rsync mirror, git mirror), but tree is the same. > I've never seen the page you mentioned about the recruiting process. > Sounds strange. Happy googling :) Best regards, Andrew Savchenko
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