Filing individual bugs for all out-dated LXDE components lxdm 0.5.3 is released Thank you. Alec Ari
Alec, thank you for the lxde reports. Unfortunately I saw that both developers from the lxde project [1] listed them self as "unavailable" [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=lxde-base&list_id=3216150 This is technically no problem, because gentoo has solutions for such situations. If you have the chance to test, if a rename of the ebuild works for you, or if you can provide any further information, we will get the bumps faster in the tree. Please do not get frustrated, if the LXDE bugs will take a bit longer to close than usual. Best, Jonas [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:LXDE [2] https://www.gentoo.org/inside-gentoo/developers/unavailable-developers.html
I wouldn't mind becoming a dev / maintainer for LXDE on Gentoo. I've done it for years for Arch, Debian and Ubuntu. I must say, you guys made Gentoo by FARR the most developer friendly distribution. It's never been so easy to create packages, switch package versions, and perform even the biggest tasks of system administration. I wish I switched sooner. (And I thought writing PKGBUILDs for Arch was as easy as it could get.) I can post some ebuilds if you like, where would you want them hosted? I was thinking about opening up an overlay on my github page filled with security packages and misc updates. Pulledpork (using oinkcodes to fetch the latest policies) arptables openrc-run init script with /var/lib/arptables rule saving / unloading etc (just like iptables behaviour and scripting in gentoo) and a bunch of other things missing from the portage tree. I'm actually currently working on an OSSEC package as well. Let me know, sorry for all the OT.
Alec, these are good news. there are two technical ways how you can contribute. 1) on your personal overlay (github...) 2) as proxy maintainer (you can start soon, packages are reviewed by experienced developers) 3) as gentoo developer with full write access. (takes long time and many quizzes) I suggest you push your ebuilds on github and contribute them later as proxied maintainer. Have a look on the ebuild quiz [1] from time to time if you have some spare time. You can learn a lot from it even if you do not want to become a full gentoo developer in the end. Please contact the Proxy maintainers project [2] and cc to lxde@gentoo.org. They can help you. Best, Jonas [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Recruiters/Quiz [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers
lxdm-0.5.3 added to the tree
