I would like to ask all people, who get to users, who want to contribute with ebuilds or similar,
tell them about our sunrise overlay[1][2]. People can learn how to write ebuilds, they can learn how
to write ebuilds with some nice QA, they learn how to manage a SCM (in this case svn) and some may
even enhance to gentoo developers. :-)
As a side effect, we get a nice collection of ebuild, which are easily maintainable even by users
and which are easily accessable by everyone.

Esp. i would ask those who wrangle bug: If a user contributes an ebuild for an app not already in
portage, tell them about sunrise, so they help out a little bit more, if they are interested. With
that done, something like "sunrise suggested" in Whiteboard would be nice.





Anyone knows an easy way to point people to our overlay from e.g. our main website? Something like
www.gentoo.org -> "I want to contribute"/Contributions -> Sunrise/others would be nice. It could
help to get more contributions and activity to sunrise on the one side and will make it easier for
people who want to contribute to find some place where they can do it.

Other ideas/suggestions for Sunrise are also welcome, tell me about them on-list/off-list/by
mail/#gentoo-sunrise or other preferred way.

[1]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/sunrise
[2]: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/wiki


-- 
Thomas Sachau

Gentoo Linux Developer