[gentoo-user] Re: The end of "Herds"

2014-11-06 Thread James
Alec Ten Harmsel alectenharmsel.com> writes: > There is a large discussion on the Spark mailing list right now about > having groups of maintainers for different areas: > http://apache-spark-developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com/VOTE-Designating-maintainers-for-some-Spark-components-td9115.html

[gentoo-user] Re: The end of "Herds"

2014-11-06 Thread James
Alec Ten Harmsel alectenharmsel.com> writes: > > I think the concept of "Projects" will persist, but herds have > > to become active and request to become "Projects" as defined > > on the gentoo wiki or they will be erased. Like many others, > > I have been burned in the past with trying to get

[gentoo-user] Re: The end of

2014-11-05 Thread James
Rich Freeman gentoo.org> writes: > > Surely we have a container project now, but no > > active cluster herd or project. > In any FOSS activity the #1 issue tends to be people willing to do the > work. If we have that, then there is no reason to let anything else > stand in the way. There a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The end of

2014-11-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 2:14 PM, James wrote: > > Surely we have a container project now, but no > active cluster herd or project. I think that is very > important, so if one does not materialize, then how > do users (commoners) go about creating one? Please keep > this question in mind as the devs

[gentoo-user] Re: The end of

2014-11-05 Thread James
James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > Also you did not OOps, I was interrupted here. Should have been: Also, you did not illuminate how I can form a cluster project, if the exisiting cluster-herd does not request to be converted to the gentoo cluster-project. Surely we have a container project n

[gentoo-user] Re: The end of

2014-11-05 Thread James
Michael Orlitzky gentoo.org> writes: > 1. See who's active in the Java overlay. This one's easy. >$ git clone git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/java.git >$ cd java >$ git log agreed. > 2. Check who's been making commits under dev-java. >$ cd $PORTDIR/de

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The end of

2014-11-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 11/05/2014 10:55 AM, James wrote: > >> For you personally, I would try to find one or two people on the Java >> project (actually working on Java right now) and explain to them that >> you'd like to help close old bugs. Then you can CC or reassign the Java >> bugs to those people. When bug mai

[gentoo-user] Re: The end of

2014-11-05 Thread James
Michael Orlitzky gentoo.org> writes: > This is exactly the problem we're trying to solve (and I'm sorry to hear > it, many of us have been in a similar position). Yep. The point is not to "bemoan" the issue, but steer gentoo into a direction where those who are not devs (for whatever reason) ca