Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A heretical thought? Blessing project sunrise as an almost-fork.

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 15:56 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 09:18:57AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > I would have *no problem* with an opt-in system.  Instead of using
> > "InOverlay" (which is a poor choice anyway... which overlay?) as some
> > sort of tag, instead, assign the package to the project which maintains
> > the herd the package belongs to.  If the project does not want it, then
> > they can add "SUNRISE" to Keywords (in bugzilla).  The Sunrise project
> > then has permission to do with the package as they see fit.  At *this*
> > point, you could use "InOverlay", since it would be pretty obvious which
> > overlay it means.
> >
> > The real root of the problem is that packages that were once assigned to
> > teams/projects are now being assigned into a generic dumping ground and
> > being forgotten.  You're trying to resolve this problem by moving them
> > to another dumping ground, which I completely disagree with.  A better
> > solution would be to revert the broken behavior, and start assigning
> > packages back to the projects, as it used to be done.  Let the project
> > decide if they want the package or not.  If they don't, then they can
> > simply add a single keyword and Sunrise can have at it.
> >
> > This pleases everyone, as packages can be maintained in Sunrise, and the
> > projects still get to decide about packages that would likely affect
> > them.  It changes the project to an opt-in project, rather than having
> > to track down things and opt-out.
>
> Except there is a flaw in your idea. As I see it, nothing prevents the
> developers of Project Sunrise from joining each and every team
> currently in existance and start marking enhancement requests
> "SUNRISE", regardless of the general opinion of the team/project.

Sure there is.  That is what we would call an abuse of power and should
be met with the appropriate $smackdown on the developer who went and did
such actions.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux