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On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 02:42:03 +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I have founded a new Gentoo Project for the Gentoo User Overlay. |
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> The intention is to give contributors a single place to put their ebuilds - |
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> a place where they can be downloaded, updated and be moved to portage more |
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> easily than through bugzilla. It is also a good place for users who would |
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> like to become developers to learn how to commit and how to not break the |
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> tree. |
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I think this answers an important shortcoming of the bugzilla approach: |
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vis, some bugs will never make it to the tree -- for any number of |
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reasons. Take, for example, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103354, |
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which has an enhancement request for what is now called beyond-sources. A |
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amalgamation of the arch, ck, tiger, nitro, and suspend2 sources. While on |
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the kernel, IRC, I enquired about it, since I had just updated an ebuild |
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for it, and was told unequivocally that there was no interest on the |
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kernel team's part for adding this source tree to sys-kernel. Not maybe, |
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not let's have a look at it, not come back in a month after testing. Just |
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NO. |
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And, I'm fine with that. That's their job -- to protect the quality of |
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their project, and to keep things relatively safe and manageable. |
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Nonetheless, the bug is active, with a good number of people subscribing |
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to it and contributing to it. The sunshine overlay would be an ideal place |
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to store a kernel source tree or any project which would never find a home |
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in portage. |
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As I see it, there are really two main issues with bugzilla. One, is to |
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resolve open ebuild enhancement bugs. Mark them somehow so it's clear the |
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bug has been reviewed and an action determined. CANTFIX/WONTFIX is harsh, |
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but if that's what it is, then mark it! The second issue is the orphaning |
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of packages which have merit, but no maintainer. Again, the sunshine |
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overlay would provide a home for those packages. It will also allow the |
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user to take ownership of a project, get some experience, and maybe decide |
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to become a dev. And, should that occur, then, lo, the orphaned package |
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may have a maintainer someday. |
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So, hopefully, as the overlay project moves forward, it will help take |
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some of the heat off bugzilla and allow for the offering of more ebuilds |
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to userland. |
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JM2C |
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Peter |
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