Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise thread -- a try of clarification

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 21:57 +0200, Markus Ullmann wrote:
> Well at least briefly. We decided to maintain it in an official way and
> thus keep an eye on the quality of the checkins. As said, at least a
> briefly view at it and also a repoman scan.

A repoman scan won't catch subtle bugs caused in other packages by
packages in this overlay.  It *will* add extra maintenance to any
package maintainer within Gentoo.

> Sounds he likes to contribute / maintain some apps, just not the whole
> thing you have to do when being a full dev. But he expressed his
> interest in this as a possible entry point. So I guess we can keep an
> eye on him...

Yes.  This person is also fully capable of continuing to provide ebuilds
to bugzilla.

> But one thing is important: As the project has some overlay nature,
> there _may_ be the one or other small issue with it. On the other hand
> what ebuild is 100% bugfree?  ;)  QA would have nothing todo then... And
> here we don't break the (stable) tree if some really nasty issue ever
> slips through our fingers.

No, but the ebuilds are also checked by the team in question, that
actually knows the packages, versus a couple of developers that will be
overworked, dealing with packages that they are completely unfamiliar
with and have no experience with.  I just don't see the two as equal in
any way.  I also do not see how this helps Gentoo development.  The only
thing that this does is allows for a few packages that hardly anyone is
interested in having become available for our users.  That's a noble
effort, but there's usually a reason why these packages do not get
picked up.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux