-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Am Sonntag, 12. April 2015, 16:27:53 schrieb Yanestra: > > Maybe you can explain what this maintainer / proxy maintainer / Sunrise > fuss is all about?
Mostly ways of getting involved for people who are new to Gentoo. Attempts to "make the initial step easier". The number of such attempts has exploded recently, and it tends to get confusing. * Proxy-maintainership means "you take care of some ebuilds, and a developer commits the stuff for you". Which is good for the start, but in the end it just generates double work, so if you're serious about contributing more, becoming a full dev over time is the way to go. * Sunrise is an overlay for user contributions, with rather strict review and QA guidelines, and a good place to learn how to write ebuilds. Due to limited manpower it is sadly a bit inactive right now. While this is all very nice, the main thing for becoming developer is 1) find a way to contribute (i.e. something that interests you), 2) find a mentor (ideally with related interests). > There are apparently several different portage source repositories, > basing on different software, and furthermore, there is layman. As far > as I remember, portage is stored in cvs, where there is also git, and > somewhere subversion seems to linger. There is one main and official portage tree. Or in newspeak, the Gentoo repository. You know, the thing that goes into /usr/portage. It sadly still lives on cvs. That may change in the future. Overlays are add-on repositories which add more ebuilds. They can use any sort of version control system you like, be maintained by just about everyone and have any or no quality control guidelines at all. Don't believe any of the stuff you hear about Gentoo decentralization. Just because someone makes a lot of noise doesn't necessarily mean it'll have any impact. > And there is lots of documentation that appears to be outdated or > strangely unattached to questions concerning organisation and overall > structure. > Do there exist something like quality guidelines for ebuilds? > Why is there such a chaos? Much documentation is being reorganized at the moment. You should start with the main website. Anything in the "Project:" namespace of the wiki is also official. Otherwise, Pacho already mentioned the most important page. https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/become-developer/ Cheers, Andreas - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice) dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVKommAAoJEB9VdM6hupKVfeoP/A+OKwTL3vpKPzfDTo/xL5UU 5tCeuyZ8kJjqTl4mdn6+3q3ZA4xbCEsd/8lmp8Z5hoDRP0h/myQZXsYMIbHU4MJ+ YdkJC5xYF9IFQykEtu97qPwcSCe6alGJDQZ8P4rX3oEmscSXJTP/vatObvwmOZbh cW6p9r9XXoDeclsbg6y5jPWCNGLoCkgbyLDeTPoFkcqpIVgpCH2ekGQ0jkTNI0KM /5iiAijOwcMyC8oG4VQBECg9xdH9N3dRjlcuu2I6CIISHzOka5gX/LjB6EnD6mG9 fDw3Jg4ASx8CmnyWwwOJBJaZHX9sdh5H/7VQaPzoYVvtzAFw5U8KyhcKJ3QqfPBf ZJBgf36ZO89szxaNW4JXyFhFwgcmcexCIX7nudSC+cXYGsBbdUB4IAFch7i5oirX 8FD3ihmlADejyF/ULQlCw3z+kc8U3vGRXG7C4hYq3Cq6nbJ1Dn4NMOAEyTyOtzRI M9+YVd+aCpFDehf0D6qK22zC03MWtyfKcFb7ueXU0+w+83JQ2psvrK3OOxOo4uPf 4znI8BthWGqKto4BC51H6/a9v9TT9VUY9ZOSvCMEvBfa8nV6KxcsRnHDK10/8YKX lCKK7X1J9eissceCIfInkZH0hb+YApo9xWWEqo2sM78IK300/TV52tq2vX5wGDtP axrEs4rfzMrPQTURnhSC =iPEZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
