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Correct me if I'm wrong, but the gentoo development community |
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as a whole would probably have to switch to something other |
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than CVS. In my experience from CVS, trying to merge back |
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in changes from 2 different branches are nearly impossible (if |
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we wanted to merge in changes from the 'unofficial' branch). |
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Personally, I don't have time to learn some other system at this |
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point in time, so I'd vote against this. Please correct me if |
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I'm wrong on the merging front there, but I use it every day |
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at work, and it's one of the things that gets to me most about |
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CVS. |
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-Brad |
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> Jon Portnoy wrote: |
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> |
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>>And millions of bug reports from users who don't realize they shouldn't |
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>>report bugs to us on unofficial, unsupported ebuilds, plus users who |
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>>don't realize Gentoo isn't responsible for any breakage, viruses, or |
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>>whatever else propogated by an unofficial tree. |
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>> |
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> Jon, what John meant is maybe something like to just allow "qualified" |
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> non devs to support work in the unofficial tree. I'm quite sure that |
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> these non devs feel very responsible for their work. There might be some |
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> BugReports in the beginning, but they will be handled by the responsible |
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> non dev. Maybe some of these non devs will become a dev in the future or |
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> where asked to become a dev in the past but just don't have the time for |
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> such a responsible job (personally this is half of the true for me - the |
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> other half is that i'm feeling that i'm still in the progress of |
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> learning). |
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> On the other side i believe, that users accessing this unofficial tree |
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> know what they are doing, so it should'nt reflect the official devs that |
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> much. In my understanding this "feature" is requested by people which |
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> are not that happy with the current situation (some of them are these |
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> non devs we talking about). All of them are aware of the consequences. |
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> This tree would be completely out of scope for "normal" users (they most |
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> likely never get in touch with this unofficial tree). |
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> Maybe all these mails are just a request for an "official" unofficial |
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> tree!? The problem of lots of unsubmitted ebuilds in bugzilla has to be |
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> adressed somehow. You should use the motiviatian and the added value |
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> which these non devs would like to bring in. Don't offend them! |
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> Thx, |
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> Jan |
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> PS: If someone of the non devs would ask me, i can say that i've found a |
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> acceptable solution for my occasional activities: Just get a account for |
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> any unofficial gentoo cvs tree and submitt your ebuilds there (and to |
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> bugzilla also, of course). So you are able to maintain your ebuilds, get |
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> familiar with repoman etc. and interessted people can use your ebuilds |
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> by accessing this tree via PORTDIR_OVERLAY. |
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