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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:26:59
Message-Id: 44227701.1050306@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support by Stuart Herbert
1 Stuart Herbert wrote:
2 > On 3/23/06, Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o> wrote:
3 >> Stuart Herbert wrote:
4 >>> Developer overlays would only be created for active Gentoo developers,
5 >>> and they would be accountable for its contents. Non-developers will
6 >>> not be given write access to developer overlays.
7 >> This removes much of the motivation for merging overlays to o.g.o, at
8 >> least some of the ones I am aware of.
9 >
10 > Then I'll re-consider.
11 >
12 > I was hoping that developers would setup projects if there are
13 > multiple contributors (project overlays will allow write access to
14 > non-devs).
15
16 I don't think I'm understanding your intent here, because I've read
17 things two different ways. My main goal is to allow easy contribution by
18 non-devs, via allowing them to commit directly to some overlay. How is
19 that possible in your vision?
20
21 Thanks,
22 Donnie

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