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Carsten Lohrke wrote: |
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> On Thursday 08 June 2006 02:42, Stefan Schweizer wrote: |
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>> Initially jokey and myself will be working on this. The current focus is to |
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>> migrate ebuilds from bugzilla into the overlay and to get contributors to |
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>> commit their changes to the overlay instead of updating the bugzilla every |
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>> time. |
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> Can't agree with that. Users should a) post their ebuilds at bugzilla, since |
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> it is the place, we track request and b) get them from there, forced to |
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> maintain their own overlay (and actually look at each ebuild), than trust |
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> some arbitrary overlay, that is neither supported security wise, nor is |
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> ensured that the ebuilds have a minimal quality (do not fubar a users |
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> system). |
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> Overlays make sense to perform changes how a whole range of packages are |
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> handled, to be merged with the official Portage tree, later. |
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Agreed. While this is in theory an excellent idea, it won't help right now. In |
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my opinion, what we really need is for some community members to step up and |
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create "the world's <lauditory adjective> Gentoo-ebuild-related "clearinghouse", |
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better than BMG etc., that could be used as a better means of submitting ebuilds |
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to bugzie. That way there's much more outside testing and widespread use before |
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(hopefully) very high quality ebuilds and/or overlays are submitted to bugzilla |
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for official Gentoo review. |
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So the workload on the Gentoo devs would be greatly reduced, instead of having |
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to (now) police ebuilds in at least two different locations. Overlays are a pain |
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to manage as it is. I understand that Sunrise is trying to solve the central |
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problem of maintainers, but right now it sounds like it's doing it in a very |
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roundabout, ineffective manner. |
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