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On 09/06/06, Luis Francisco Araujo <araujo@g.o> wrote: |
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> Chris Bainbridge wrote: |
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> > There are already loads of semi-official overlays. Besides the stuff |
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> > actually hosted by gentoo (random example |
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> > http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/bzr/overlay/) there are official |
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> > groups (again, not picking on anyone but exampes would be java, php, |
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> > webapps...) with semi-official overlays. I don't know if the overlays |
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> > are actually hosted on gentoo hardware, but when they're run by gentoo |
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> > devs, publically available, and referred to in forums, bugzilla, |
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> > mailing lists etc. then that at least makes them "semi-official". |
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> I don't agree with that "semi-official" term. |
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> We for example have an overlay for the Haskell project. Nevertheless, |
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> we consider it the official overlay for our group, but not for Gentoo. So |
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> that way we can use it as our sand-box, to play with it as much as we |
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> can, and giving commit access to even non-developers, the advantage |
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The Haskell overlay isn't publically available (at least, layman |
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doesn't know about it). That makes it quite different from the |
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"semi-official" overlays I gave as examples. |
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Whether something is "semi-official" or not is all about perception. |
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If people see that a project is run by gentoo developers, possibly |
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formed into a gentoo group, using gentoo resources (bugzilla, forums, |
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mailing lists etc) to discuss and organise, then there will be a |
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perception that the project has some semblance of officiality. |
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