Gerhard W Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 20:31:30 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Not really. Contributed ebuilds will generally be accepted pretty >>quickly so long as they meet the following criteria: > >>* The package is maintained upstream > > What exactly does that mean?
I read this to mean that Gentoo won't accept packages that aren't actively being developed. Which, in my opinion, isn't necessarily a great policy. Sometimes, a program gets to the point where it does everything the developer wants, and it's *done*. I submitted an ebuild for one program I use *all the time*, but I guess it won't make it into portage because it's a couple years old. I'm not taking this personally, but it's a shame that a lot of Gentoo users will never use this package because it's "unmaintained". > Actually the only good experience with patch policy, I had so far, is > with the wine folks. They accept patches from anybody and they are > commited in a reasonable time. Of course I don' t expect each and > every patch to show up immediately, but in other projects I also had > the experience that I submitted code and you get no good answers. One > time I submitted an entire new control for a gui lib, which the author > said would be great to have and I never got a response. Not if the > author accepts or not and if not for what reason whatsoever. This is > quite frustrating. That's the cool thing about (free and) open source -- if you don't like where the project is headed you can just fork it. Maybe you don't have time to maintain your fork, but if somebody else wants the feature you added, they can have it. -Eamon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
