Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

[Luis Francisco Araujo]

Peter wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 02:42:03 +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote:
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have founded a new Gentoo Project for the Gentoo User Overlay.
>>
>> The intention is to give contributors a single place to put their ebuilds -
>> a place where they can be downloaded, updated and be moved to portage more
>> easily than through bugzilla. It is also a good place for users who would
>> like to become developers to learn how to commit and how to not break the
>> tree.
>>
>>
> I think this answers an important shortcoming of the bugzilla approach:
> vis, some bugs will never make it to the tree -- for any number of
> reasons. Take, for example, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103354,
> which has an enhancement request for what is now called beyond-sources. A
> amalgamation of the arch, ck, tiger, nitro, and suspend2 sources. While on
> the kernel, IRC, I enquired about it, since I had just updated an ebuild
> for it, and was told unequivocally that there was no interest on the
> kernel team's part for adding this source tree to sys-kernel. Not maybe,
> not let's have a look at it, not come back in a month after testing. Just
> NO.
>
> And, I'm fine with that. That's their job -- to protect the quality of
> their project, and to keep things relatively safe and manageable.
>
> Nonetheless, the bug is active, with a good number of people subscribing
> to it and contributing to it. The sunshine overlay would be an ideal place
> to store a kernel source tree or any project which would never find a home
> in portage.
>
>
If the ebuild will never find a home in portage, then it shouldn't be 
officially supported.
What you are proposing is like to setup a parallel portage tree.


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