On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 09:52 +0300, Alin Nastac wrote: > Natanael Copa wrote: > > Nobody has ever showed interest and I'm not pushing my services on > > anyone. > > > Why exactly you don't want to become a Gentoo dev? The whole "proxy > maintainer" thing is a bunch of crap. The Gentoo developer will still be > expected to be responsible of his/her commits, which means 2 maintainers > will spend (approximately) same amount of time testing it.
Maybe he doesn't want to deal with the politics? Maybe he doesn't want to deal with the flame wars? Maybe, he just wants his package in the tree and hopes to find a developer who thinks the same? Personally, I proxy maintain 3 packages. I don't actively *use* these packages. In this case, I'm mostly just a "commit monkey" though I do check the packages for things similarly to what is done by Arch Testers. Now, I wouldn't take on a very large number of such packages, simply due to my own time constraints. In this case, I proxy maintain for a former Gentoo ebuild developer, so I have a strong level of trust that he knows what he's doing. Even then, I still give them a once-over. It is so little effort on my part to "maintain" the packages that, if I so chose, I could probably proxy 100 of these. The brunt of the work, such as keeping up with upstream, writing patches, etc. are done by the person whom I proxy for, and not by me. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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