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On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 07:43 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: |
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> What I would like to propose is that we have an official (yes, official) |
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> cvs overlay that is used by developers *and* contributors to commit new |
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> ebuilds and changes to. Mirrors would still pull, as they always have, |
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> from the gentoo-x86 cvs repo. "Official" Gentoo developers would then be |
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> able to take from the overlay and commit to the main tree at will, but |
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> have a common stomping ground for contributors and developers to work in |
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> without fear of breaking the rest of the tree. We reward those users |
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> (pardon the terms if you find that condescending, its not intended as |
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> such) with the drive and passion, but not the means, resources, or time, |
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> by making them contributors to this overlay, where they can make cvs |
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> commits. |
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> This overlay wouldn't necessarily need to be the whole of the tree, |
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> either. Some areas, such as profiles, could be absent, as well as select |
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> projects (perhaps the kernel and toolchain portions?). These |
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> contributors wouldn't need to have a flood of @gentoo.org email |
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> addresses - they are only contributors who, for whatever reason, are not |
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> actually full scale developers. |
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I'm just asking, but isn't this exactly what Sunrise is supposed to be? |
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Isn't this the reason it was approved by the previous Council? |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
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Gentoo Foundation |
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