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> > A developer could then take these ebuilds, make sure they |
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> > don't do anything malicious, or break QA, or whatever, and act as the |
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> > bridge between the portage tree and the users actually working on the |
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> > ebuild and keeping things up to date and working. |
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> The easiest way to handle "contrib" as far as that "big warning" is to |
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> make it a separate tree. That way, folks who want the flexibility get |
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> it, but those who prefer not to "risk it", don't have to worry about it. |
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> As well, contribs becomes another fertile developer recruitment ground. |
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Why would the packages need a "big warning"/overlay/eclass if they |
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were checked by a developer to make sure they "don't do anything |
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malicious, or break QA, or whatever"? There are many user contributed |
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ebuilds that have made their way into portage after being reviewed by |
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devs that don't have any such warnings. |
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I don't think creating a "contrib" overlay as an official part of |
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Gentoo would be a good idea because making it an official Gentoo |
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project conveys a certain level of quality. If the quality is there, |
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then why not add the ebuilds to portage in the first place? If the |
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quality isn't there, then you will have a lot of unhappy users |
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complaining that an official Gentoo overlay broke their system. |
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Having a non-Gentoo sponsored contrib overlay wouldn't be a good idea |
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either IMO because the contributors wouldn't be contributing to |
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Gentoo, and they wouldn't be interacting as much with the Gentoo |
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developer community. Sure they would learn a lot of the skills |
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required to be a Gentoo developer, but they wouldn't be increasing the |
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value of anything in portage (unless they got a proxy to commit some |
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of their work to portage). Also, there are many overlays out there |
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already. Adding another one won't help with "making the developer |
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community more open". Additionally, I don't personally know of a lot |
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of people who actually use third party overlays except to get an |
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ebuild for a particular package they want or to beta test ebuilds. |
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-Thomas |
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