Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project

[Raymond Jennings]

In my humble opinion, sunrise is a needless layer of bureaucracy to getting
new packages into the tree.  Personlly, I think it's not a bad idea for new
packages to be submitted as enhancements directly on bugzilla, possibly
CCing any relevant projects who could provide a review.


On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:

> Hello, everyone.
>
> It has recently came to my attention that things are quite bad with
> the Sunrise project [1] lately. Most of the developers have left
> the project, and it seems that the contributors have done the same.
> The public reviewed repository has major QA issues and hasn't been
> updated since mid-2015. The last non-developer commit to the private
> repo also seems to come from mid-2015, followed only by a number of
> removals and fixes done by Gentoo developers.
>
> Therefore, I'd like to ask the following question: is it time to
> announce the project dead, or do some developers want to revive it?
> If the former, could someone try to contact last active contributors
> and ask them if they'd like to move their ebuilds to ::gentoo
> via proxy-maint?
>
> I should point out that Sunrise has lost a lot of popularity to
> proxy-maint, then also to GitHub pull requests (and the two combined).
> The developers involved with those provide quite a good review
> workflow, with the extra advantage of getting packages straight
> into ::gentoo. I don't know how many users would be interested
> in keeping them in ::sunrise if they could have them straight
> in ::gentoo with similar (if not less...) effort.
>
> Your thoughts?
>
> [1]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Sunrise
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Michał Górny
> <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
>