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On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 18:26 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: |
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> I have a problem with it being an official project hosted on |
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> *.gentoo.org, as I fear most users will think "hey, it's official, |
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> it's hosted on *.gentoo.org - it can't be that bad". Judging from the |
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> few users who have posted to the previous threads on this subject, my |
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> fear seems to be reasonable. |
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> If the project was to be hosted on a non *.gentoo.org domain (I'll let |
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> infra comment on whether or not non *.gentoo.org domains can be hosted |
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> on infra hardware) my current issues with this project would be gone. |
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Would moving it from overlays.g.o to overlays.dev.g.o, |
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overlays.experimental.dev.g.o help ? It could then be viewed |
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officially unofficial as the tinderboxing repository's I've |
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been working on. |
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Personally I know I would like to have a place to park |
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pic, iconv, nls patches in testing, and embedded-kernels that are say |
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vital for some devices but for one reason or another should not be in |
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the official tree. |
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> If the project proves to be healthy and not affect the reputation of |
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> Gentoo in a bad way, we could consider adopting it as an official |
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> project after a period of time. |
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Or not? |
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> Sincerely, |
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> Brix |
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> |
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