[oe] daisy branch for meta-openembedded, meta-qt5 / maintainer wanted
Otavio Salvador
otavio at ossystems.com.br
Sun May 11 23:03:10 UTC 2014
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Philip Balister <philip at balister.org> wrote:
> On 05/05/2014 09:45 AM, Martin Jansa wrote:
>> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 09:32:04AM -0700, Adam Lee wrote:
>>> Hi JaMa, what does it take to be a maintainer?
>>>
>>> Do I need to build check all the packages everyday?
>>
>> Definitely no everyday, there are more patches coming in just after the
>> release, but later it's something like 1-5 patches in month.
>>
>> So it doesn't need much time, but it's always good when it's done by
>> someone else then master maintainer (to setup separate builds etc).
>>
>> Possibly more time is spent on watching the ML, because many people
>> don't read README file and instead of following the proper procedure for
>> backports to relase branches they just say somewhere in ML "BTW: also
>> merge this to dora".
>>
>> You can also have some co-maintainer if you find way to split the work
>> without duplicating it.
>
> Adam,
>
> I'd be glad to help scan the list for backport requests.
Me too.
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