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Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 08:59 +0000, Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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>>>It is a Gentoo problem, because Gentoo gets innundated with bogus bug |
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>>>reports when users screw up their systems in weird ways and don't |
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>>>realise the cause. |
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>>Convince me that this is something more than just a power play, and |
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>>I'll work with you. But that's the hurdle you'll need to overcome |
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>>first. |
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> Perhaps because he's not the only one saying it? |
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> Really, people, can we leave our personal bullshit out of a technical |
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> discussion *just once*? |
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>>Second hurdle is that you need to convince me that you "get" what the |
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>>overlays are there for. If you can't, then I can have no confidence |
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>>that any policies you bring forward are appropriate for the work we're |
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>>trying to enable. |
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> They are there to speed development and to allow users to contribute |
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> more directly. They should not be readable by the public, otherwise we |
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> run into the problem of users that don't know what they are doing and |
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> followed some half-way written guide on the forums using ebuilds from |
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> these overlays, breaking their systems, and filing bugs. This is *not* |
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> acceptable. I see no problems with allowing users to gain read and even |
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> write access to overlays, but it must be done with a certain level of |
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> caution of the main tree, or you'll have a very hard time getting |
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> support from the developer community at large. |
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+1 |
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At least in my mind the overlays should be developmental overlays; not |
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for public comsumption. This doesn't mean "don't tell anyone about it |
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so that no one shows up." It means "interested users will probably |
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inquire about helping out, etc...and can be granted access fairly easily." |
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-Alec Warner |
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