Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal?

[Daniel Ostrow]

On Friday 24 March 2006 15:06, Daniel Ostrow wrote:
> On Friday 24 March 2006 14:35, Grant Goodyear wrote:
> > After reading through that fairly lengthy thread, I'm afraid that I can
> > no longer tell exactly what is being proposed.  Who has read access?
> > Who has write access?  Bugs are handled where, and by whom?  Are we
> > considering a fairly tightly controlled system, or a wild free-for-all?
> >  Exactly which problem are we proposing to solve here?
> >
> > If someone could succinctly summarize the current schools of thought,
> > I'd be quite indebted.
>
> As I understand it...
>
> o.g.o would be used to host developer and team based overlays that are
> owned an operated by existing Gentoo devs. Users would not be able to
> create their own overlays hosted on this system. The developer(s) who own
> the overlay would be able to control the granularity of access ranging from
> developers only, to developers plus a few trusted users, to full public ro
> access.
>
> As far as I read it, who handles the bugs and by what means at this point
> is still up in the air as there seem to be some groups that would rather
> handle bugs through their own mechanisims, be that IRC, e-mail, trac
> whathaveyou and those that would like to be able to track bugs through
> bugs.g.o.
>
> There is also the question of limiting the number of 'false' bug reports
> based uppon overlay usage, it seems that the best way to work through this
> is by augmenting the output of emerge --info. Things like a list of
> overridden eclasses in the output and the capability to add a package as an
> arguement to emerge --info in order to see if it is coming from an overlay
> seem to be good starting points.
>
> On a less technical note there is also the question of using the o.g.o
> frontpage as a means to point to existing repositiories of user created
> overlays in order to promote them.

Forgot one thing...

Even if an overlay doesn't have public access it's existance and a full 
Changelog would be available via the o.g.o frontpage to allow interested 
parties to contact the developer(s) who own the overlay to get involved. This 
would allow things like the Haskell overlay the ability to keep a small list 
of trusted contributers and promote the overlays existance to other potential 
users and developers.

-- 
Daniel Ostrow
Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees
Gentoo/{PPC,PPC64,DevRel}
dostrow@g.o