On Monday 24 of November 2008 09:21:33 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Tiziano Müller wrote: > > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> I was told to try sunrise with some of my ebuilds. There's a reason I > >> didn't, and I suspect it's the same other people also don't go to > >> sunrise. There's no good way of contributing an ebuild. There's no > >> bugzilla or website where I can upload the ebuild. All I'm told is to > >> go to IRC. I would as well might have been required to go to > >> McDonald's. > > > > Well, sunrise is not about uploading a package just somewhere but about > > having it reviewed and corrected such that it follows basic guidelines. > > Since this process requires bi-directional communication, IRC is a good > > (low-latency) way to do that. > > I disagree. IM does not provide for communication that can be > looked-up, which is important. I post something, many people will look > at it and some of them will reply. That is not possible with IM. A > mailing list is also sub-optimal. A forum or bugzilla is needed where > information/communication is stored and can be categorized and looked up.
The previous speeker just told you sunrise cooperates with Gentoo bugzilla. :-) Anyway, if IRC is not an option for everyone (i agree it may not be), mailinglist would be good. This way any informations could be archived for next contributors. :) Cheers.
