In response to Bugday and my willingness to help, I want to help users that contribute. I won’t be around for Bugday and I am normally not available on the weekends. So, here is what I am willing to do.. On any maintainer-needed bug, if you fix the issue, feel free to CC me (darkside (at) gentoo.org) on it. You should say something like “darkside: I fixed this and tested it, please commit” and I will review it and commit it.

Do not:

• CC me on a bug that doesn’t have a fix.
• CC me on a bug asking for help with something
• CC me on a bug with a fix that you personally have not tested.

• CC me on a maintainer-wanted package. Sorry, but there is Sunrise for you.

  • Abuse my willingness to help you.
  • Expect an immediate commit. Work, school, and my significant other come first 😉
  I am offering to do this because a) I like when users get involved and help make Gentoo better, b) the whole maintainership concept slightly bothers me, c) I can’t look at all 250+ maintainer-needed bugs to see if there is a fix for it by myself.

[Here][3] is a search for bugzilla that you could use to find maintainer-needed bugs (in assignee or CC). At the time of this writing there is 270. I (plus others I’m sure) have worked that queue before, the lowest I have seen it recently is 250. Consider this an open offer and we will see what happens. Thanks for helping!

[3]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailcc1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=maintainer-needed&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=