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On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 11:10:47AM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> Over the years we've had a fairly consistent stream of suggestions that |
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> we should open up the e-build maintaining process to users instead of |
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> just devs. The main arguments against it are the security issues and an |
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> expectation that it would add to developer workloads. The former is |
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> certainly a real problem, although signing (assuming a reasonable |
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> web-of-trust) could mitigate that some (at least we'd know who to |
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> blame). The latter, however, is conjecture, and the only good way to |
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> verify it would be to actually try it and see what happens. Oh, and |
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> there's also a very real fear that if things go horribly wrong, that |
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> Gentoo's reputation would suffer quite badly. Perhaps I'm naive, but I |
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> tend to think that if we were to advertise project sunrise as |
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> experimental, temporary, use-at-your-own-risk, and |
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> might-break-your-system, and even put it on hardware without a |
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> gentoo.org address and add a portage hook that warns whenever the |
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> project sunrise overlay is used, then our reputation isn't really likely |
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> to suffer even if it's a complete disaster. |
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> So, Chris, what have I failed to address that would make this a really |
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> bad idea? |
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As I've said all along - I do not have any problems with Project |
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Sunrise. I have a problem with it being an official project hosted on |
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*.gentoo.org, as I fear most users will think "hey, it's official, |
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it's hosted on *.gentoo.org - it can't be that bad". Judging from the |
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few users who have posted to the previous threads on this subject, my |
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fear seems to be reasonable. |
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If the project was to be hosted on a non *.gentoo.org domain (I'll let |
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infra comment on whether or not non *.gentoo.org domains can be hosted |
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on infra hardware) my current issues with this project would be gone. |
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If the project proves to be healthy and not affect the reputation of |
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Gentoo in a bad way, we could consider adopting it as an official |
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project after a period of time. |
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Sincerely, |
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Brix |
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Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@g.o> |
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