Gentoo Proxy Maintainers project is now live!

August 24, 2011 · Posted in Gentoo

As I promised, one of my goals this year is to create a more efficient ebuild maintenance channel between users and developers. The outcome is a new project called “Proxy maintainers“[1]. This is basically an e-mail alias including all developers who want to act as proxy maintainers. If you are a user, grab your favorite orphaned package[2] and contact us to review it and commit it on your behalf. This project has the potential to expand even further, e.g. have a single overlay were we can work together on maintainer-needed@ ebuilds before we push them on portage tree. This is a fresh shiny project so ideas are more than welcomed ;). If you haven’t heard before about ‘proxy-maintainers’ have a look on my previous blog posts[3]

[1]http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/proxy-maintainers/index.xml

[2]http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners/maintainer-needed.xml

[3]http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/tag/proxy-maintainer/

Tags: Gentoo, proxy-maintainer

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5 Responses to “Gentoo Proxy Maintainers project is now live!”

szarpaj on August 26th, 2011 5:55 am

„This project has the potential to expand even further, e.g. have a single overlay were we can work together on maintainer-needed@ ebuilds before we push them on portage tree.”

Erm, isn’t this like sunrise? (:
Markos on August 26th, 2011 9:27 am

Not quite. Sunrise deals with new packages. A developer may or may not move one of this packages to the tree.

This project deals with packages that are already to portage but nobody takes care of them. So the objectives here are a bit different :)
szarpaj on August 26th, 2011 8:19 pm

With the tree in git this should be (i think exherbo has feature like that to submit patches/bumps/foo).
szarpaj on August 26th, 2011 10:25 pm

…this should be easy.
Markos on August 27th, 2011 10:45 am

Right, but git is not going to happen any time soon so this project will help us deal with the problem for now :)