James wrote: > In may I requested network management package be added to portage, > jffnms. It was entered into bugzilla (92501). Since then it has > progressed to a masked package in portage.
I don't see it in portage. > I just (today) got email that is rather cryptic to me. Help understanding > what going on is most appreciated: > > <snip> > Clear-Text: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92501 > Secure: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92501 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: > > What |Removed |Added > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Keywords|REQUEST |EBUILD > > <snip> > > OK If I were to guess at the meaning, it's now an ebuild not a request any > more (even though the skeleton ebuild was created some weeks ago). Correct, the keyword should have been changed at that point but wasn't, so jakub fixed it up. > What puzzles me is that poking around I find this page: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/describekeywords.cgi > > Selecting The EBUILD row all the way to the right under the bugs column, the > number 4338 is linked to this page: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=EBUILD > > search for the keyword '92501' it looks as though they (gentoo denizens) > are looking for a maintainer? > > 92501 enh P2 All [EMAIL PROTECTED] > NEW net-analyzer/jffnms-0.8.2 ebuild request" You don't need to go to all that trouble to find that it was assigned to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open the bug itself: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92501 And towards the top, you see: Assigned To: Default Assignee for New Packages <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > OK, if my limited cerebrial functions are correct, it's dead in the water > until a 'maintainer' picks up the effort? Yes, maintainer being a member of the gentoo development group. > Is there anything I can do (like be a poezrrr and try to maintain this > package for the gentoo community?) Do you know how to write and understand ebuilds? If you don't, then you wouldn't make a very suitable maintainer :) If you did want to become the maintainer, you could read through our developer documentation: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml http://dev.gentoo.org/~plasmaroo/devmanual/ You'd then apply to become a Gentoo developer, and after going through the recruitment stages, you could then add the ebuild to portage and become a maintainer of that as well as of other ebuilds. However, on your bug, you noticed that someone posted an ebuild for the package you requested. Marcelo is actually a Gentoo developer, so it may well be that he has an interest in the software. You may be in luck, as he may well develop the ebuild, add it to portage, and become the maintainer. > There's lots of information with Bugzilla, but much of it's enlightenment > does not seem intuitive to me, nor have a found a lucid document that > turns bugzilla into a knowledge tool. (obviously my_bad juju) No, we lack decent bugzilla documentation but hopefully this will be resolved soon... Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
