Re: XEmacs no longer has a Gentoo maintainer

On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 01:22 +0200, Mats Lidell wrote: I'm still using your scripts to semi-automatically sync our packages.:-) Yes, the procedure is still the same. You need a mentor (I can do that) and you need to take two quizzes about how Gentoo works and how our ebuilds work. Most information is around, so with a decent search engine and prior knowledge of programming and scripts, you'd be done in a day or two. The behind-the-scenes view of the process is outlined here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/recruiters/ Right now maintenance for XEmacs takes no time at all, since there have not been recent releases :-( A new round of packages usually takes a couple of hours to handle, a new release of XEmacs itself about the same. It probably takes longer the first time :-) Then there is the occasional bug that needs to be dealt with. You can get more ambitious by taking on more projects, like preparing the tree for sxemacs or adding xemacs support to more packages that provide their own el files. Our list of open bugs is https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=xemacs&list_id=1173980 Kind regards, Hans _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta