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On Thursday 23 March 2006 13:57, Jakub Moc wrote: |
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> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:31:24 +0100 "Stefan Schweizer" |
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> > |
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> > <genstef@g.o> wrote: |
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> > | What about if we just skip your "policies" and let the overlays be a |
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> > | free place where people can handle issues how they think it is right |
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> > | for the specific case and not how $super_dev said somewhere. That is |
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> > | what overlays are about, not? |
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> > Sounds like a perfect way to break lots and lots of systems. Those |
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> > policies are mostly there for good reason. |
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> You want to apply policies on overlays? Well no - sorry, overlays are |
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> none of QA's or any other policy business. They are overlays, not |
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> official tree. If user installs ebuilds from overlay and breaks his |
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> system, then well - not a Gentoo problem. Why should any policies apply? |
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That is not what Stuart said, he indicated that overlays would be treated as |
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supported systems including the use of our bugzilla system to track defects. |
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If that is the case it crosses the line into the land of the "official" in |
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which case policys start to be applied. While I agree that it would be very |
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useful to have any overlays centrally located I do find the term "Official |
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overlay" to be insanely oxymoronic in your use of the term overlay, which I |
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gather to be "a set of ebuilds not bound by the QA and/or security |
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requirements of the portage tree". |
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If I understand correctly what you are pushing then is a Official overlay |
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respository for Unofficial overlays.... |
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You can't have it both ways, either they are wholey Unofficial and do not get |
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tracked in bugzilla at all (something which would have to be made VERY clear |
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to our users, e.g. a you use it you get to keep the pieces policy, and the |
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developer or team in question is the *only* point of contact for fixing |
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things) -or- it is an Official overlay with official support which means it |
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needs to abide by the rules... |
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Daniel Ostrow |
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Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees |
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Gentoo/{PPC,PPC64,DevRel} |
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dostrow@g.o |
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