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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:33:06
Message-Id: 44885DCC.60406@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay by Grant Goodyear
1 Grant Goodyear wrote:
2 > Stefan Schweizer wrote: [Wed Jun 07 2006, 07:42:03PM CDT]
3 >
4 >>Initially jokey and myself will be working on this. The current focus is to
5 >>migrate ebuilds from bugzilla into the overlay and to get contributors to
6 >>commit their changes to the overlay instead of updating the bugzilla every
7 >>time.
8 >
9 >
10 > I'm not opposed to what would essentially be an overlay of
11 > maintainier-wanted ebuilds, but I would actually prefer to see that
12 > happen by pulling from the bugzilla database instead of trying to
13 > replace bugzilla altogether. My reasoning is that bugzilla provides a
14 > place for community development of an ebuild (including commentary!),
15 > which would not be true of just the overlay. If one were instead to add
16 > a magical bugs whiteboard status or keyword that let a script know that
17 > there's an ebuild to pull from bugzilla that should be added to the
18 > there-be-dragons-here overlay, I'd think that would make life
19 > much simpler for everybody.
20 >
21 > -g2boojum-
22
23 FYI I've been tinkering with something similar using gentoo-bugger, but
24 I haven't had time to work on it recently.
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