Re: [proaudio] ANN: 1 year gentoo-proaudio-overlay

[Frieder Bürzele <evermind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yves Cochard wrote:
> Sorry, but...
>
> What a "maintainer"....
>
> What does that mean exactly?

A maintainer/developer  fixes bugs and or creates new ebuilds
adds contributed ebuilds into the repository,...


> If he has to "try" a soft, it's ok, I'm the next gentoo pro audio  
> developper, otherwise, I'm just a simple user...
>
> :-[
>
> +
>
> kolt'
>
> Reuben Martin a écrit :
> > On 1/27/07, Frieder Bürzele <evermind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Reuben Martin wrote:
> > > > On 1/26/07, Frieder Bürzele <evermind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >> 1. add new maintainers
> > > >> 2. Mention the existence of the overlay at http://linux-sound.org/
> > > >> 3. Maybe a installable proaudio livecd (or livedvd) based on
> > > >> sabayonlinux
> > > >>    which is based on gentoo :)
> > > >
> > > > 4. Try to get packages that have matured enough in the overlay
> > > > offloaded onto the main portage tree.
> > > >
> > > thats not easy as this needs testing feedback to know which package
> > > works fine
> > > I'll try to put a list of ready to go ebuilds. But the problem of
> > > maintaining
> > > remains.
> >
> > Well this was assuming that somebody could be found to maintain it in
> > portage. (This is basically an alternative way to achieving #1)
> >
> > -Reuben