matt mooney posted on Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:40:55 -0700 as excerpted: > I would possibly be interested in maintaining mc. I am not a current > gentoo developer, but I have been trying to get involved recently. Is > there anyway I could help out? Or is this only for current gentoo > developers.
Hi, Matt, I'm just a user (both Gentoo and mc) too. A gentoo-dev needs to be the committing maintainer, but there's what's called a proxy maintainer setup as well. If you're interested in being the user maintainer while he's the proxy, contact Alex A (aka and gentoo email wired@), who appears to have taken it. The way that works is that you'd work in partnership with him, probably grabbing any version bumps and testing them, making any ebuild and patch changes necessary, and then forwarding it to wired to actually make the commit. That saves him time to work on other packages, and may well get new mc versions in the tree much faster, especially if you follow upstream closely and he doesn't. That's a great way to learn the ins and outs of Gentoo and work toward general Gentoo devhood as well, if you're interested. If not, you can simply continue user-maintaining the single package you are interested in. Either way, it benefits both Gentoo and other users (like me) of the package. Of course, that's all conditional on you and he forging a good working relationship, but most devs won't complain about being offered some help. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
