Hi, As a non-dev who recently joined this list, I think it would be too bad for me if you made those policy changes.
Basically, I neither have the skills nor the time (yet) to even try to become a dev but I truly enjoy "contributing" once in a while especially for packages I use at work. Since I'm not yet in a position of wanting to become a dev, I don't use IRC. Also, I find e-mails a lot more convenient when time is a limiting factor. The fact is that I joined this list with the intention of asking whether someone can help me out with a couple of reports I posted in bugs.gentoo.org such as http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182544 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174588 I already contacted jokey (Markus) several months ago via e-mail and we agreed that he would have setup "proxy maintenance" for the shorewall ebuilds so that I could contribute patches and learn from his suggestions. We never got to do anything because we simply stopped e-mailing. So basically, I'd like to take advantage of this list before I get excluded and ask anyone if it's possible for a plain user like me to make occasional package-specific contributions in the form of "proxy maintenance" or the likes. I also feel that an open dev mailing list can be useful for contributing users to learn from experienced devs a few things that aren't always obvious (eg. a recent post titled "cyclic dependencies"). If you think I should direct my queries to another list then please let me know. Markus, if you have a chance to read this then I'd be glad to resume our e-mail interchange, if you're still willing to. If you're overloaded with work then maybe someone else could help out? Thank you all for making Gentoo what it is. And sorry for the long post. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545433 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
