On Dienstag 28 Juli 2009, Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: > Hi all, > > recently, I have written an ebuild for the program sci-chemistry/gabedit > and published it at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279438 > > I am a chemist, so please excuse the following questions. ;) > What will now happen with the published ebuild? Can I somehow help > getting it to portage? > > Is the bugreport configured correctly or did I make a mistake, due to > the fact that I am a noob in respect of writing ebuilds? I read many > docs about publishing and writing ebuilds, I checked the ebuild using > repoman, and really tried to do everything correctly. > > While checking the ebuild with repoman and reading the docs, I realized > that I have to create a ChangeLog and a metadata.xml. Do I have to post > them and the Manifest somewhere, too? > > Thank you very much in advance for your help. > > kind regards, > der Max
well, bug wranglers will assign it to the right herd/dev and someone of that group will post his/hers comments. From that point on - you will see. I don't think that you need to attach a changelog - or manifest. Manifest is easily generated so that can IMHO wait until the final version that goes to the tree is found
