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diff --git a/Documentation/bug-snippet.txt b/Documentation/bug-snippet.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..74f6d72 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/bug-snippet.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Are you interested in maintaning this driver directly yourself in the new +printer-drivers overlay [1]? + +If yes, just send me via personal e-mail at dilfridge@gentoo.org +a public ssh key [2], so we can give you git push access to the overlay. +If you have a gnupg key, you should sign that e-mail [3]. + +Just a few rules: +* Initially, the ebuilds should work for you, and not break + anything else. +* You enter yourself as maintainer in metadata.xml (together with + the printing herd), and are then automatically cc'ed in bug reports + on bugzilla. +* We will guide you towards improving the ebuilds over the next + months so they follow the rules and qa guidelines of the Gentoo + main portage tree. In particular this means also using a recent + EAPI (3 or perferably 4), and fixing repoman warnings [4]. + Don't worry, we'll help you with that. +* I hope this is never going to happen, but... ebuilds that "work but + go against the guidelines" and do not see any improvement will be + removed again one year after initial addition. + +There are many ways to get help. +* You can directly ask me by personal e-mail (my time is limited, + but I'll try), +* you can ask on freenode, channel #gentoo-dev-help, +* you can read the documentation (ebuild howto [5], devmanual [6]), +* ... + +[1] http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/printer-drivers.git;a=summary +[2] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/openssh-key-management-p1.xml +[3] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnupg-user.xml +[4] http://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/man/repoman.1.html +[5] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2 +[6] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ |