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Alexander Berntsen wrote: |
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> It would be fruitful to encourage every single Gentoo user to have |
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> their own repository. And this repository should be publicly available. |
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> What are your thoughts? |
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Genius. |
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This is exactly what I have been doing for many years, but I couldn't |
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have expressed it as well as you just did. Thank you. |
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IMO, this should be a high priority. It is the ability to work this |
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way that makes Gentoo so valuable to me. |
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> Users could also review each other's ebuilds to ensure better |
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> quality ebuilds. |
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> Parallel to all this, we should work on tooling. |
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> It would also be good to offer hosting |
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I will argue that these are actually one. Tooling and hosting are the |
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only things that Gentoo needs to work on to get users to race each |
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other up the ebuild curve. |
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Make "user repos" a first-class Gentoo "thing", something that people |
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talk about and work with, simply because it enables them to solve |
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their specific problems in a painless way. |
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Most of the tooling is there - layman works fine - but just make |
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overlays (the way they work now is fine!) a first-class citizen, |
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and encourage their use. |
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> insofar as possible to a set of curated repositories we consider to |
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> be of high quality. |
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GitHub Inc. is successful because they host a central location with |
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"all the code on the Internet"; convenient for consumers and |
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producers alike. Of course it is a fallacy, but it's convenient |
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when it works. |
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Ensure that Gentoo accomplishes the same for Gentoo. |
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Do NOT - I repeat NOT - tie "user repos" to GitHub Inc., please do |
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not even bother working on a prototype there (looking at you James), |
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because if it is good enough it will stick, and as the social |
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contract rightfully states, it's important to remain independent, |
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so that Gentoo and Gentoo only can decide what it will offer. |
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This is a wonderful idea which would benefit the community |
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tremendously. I wish I had time to implement all of it immediately. |
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Kind regards |
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//Peter |
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