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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2016 08:03:32
Message-Id: 995D0643-6AA2-48FA-A012-9161B784B0EC@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project by Andrew Savchenko
1 Dnia 8 czerwca 2016 09:05:37 CEST, Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> napisał(a):
2 >Hi,
3 >
4 >On Tue, 7 Jun 2016 22:31:46 +0200 Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
5 >> Sunrise was a great way to learn packaging for Gentoo. Reviews were
6 >*very*
7 >> strict in the past, resulting in better QA standards than the Gentoo
8 >main tree
9 >> - - and a definite frustration threshold that one had to overcome.
10 >With a couple
11 >> of packages in Sunrise, doing the quizzes was a piece of cake though.
12 >>
13 >> That said...
14 >>
15 >> If there's no activity anymore, we definitely should remove the
16 >overlay from
17 >> Layman and (important!) remove the mentions of Sunrise from our web
18 >pages
19 >> (e.g., "contributing to Gentoo").
20 >
21 >I agree that sunrise should be retired, but this must be done
22 >gracefully, because people (including myself) are still using some
23 >packages from it.
24 >
25 >A grace period (between read-only state and removal from layman and
26 >other listings) should be at least one year, maybe several years
27 >as was suggested in another e-mail here. This way people will be
28 >able to safely migrate and pick any packages of interest from
29 >sunrise to the main tree or other repos.
30
31 It is read-only for a year already, so I'll just remove it:-P.
32
33 But seriously, if you really care to keep it, go and fix it to the point of not failing hard.
34
35 >
36 >Best regards,
37 >Andrew Savchenko
38
39
40 --
41 Best regards,
42 Michał Górny (by phone)