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On 6/8/06, Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@g.o> wrote: |
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> Will you also review the code each and every ebuild pull down over the |
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> internet? |
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The policy for overlays.gentoo.org hosting [1] is hopefully clear: as |
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the project leads, they're ultimately responsible (and therefore |
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accountable) for what goes into their project overlay - no matter |
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whether it's committed by a dev or by a user who has been entrusted |
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with commit rights to the overlay. |
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The policy for what can go into an overlay is also hopefully clear: |
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overlays are for package trees, their patchsets, any docs, and any |
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downloadable tarballs that have nowhere else to be hosted. It's not |
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there to be $UPSTREAM, except for eselect modules, -config scripts and |
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the like that exist purely to support ebuilds in the package tree. |
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I expect projects and developers who are using overlays to be |
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respectful of others. The whole point of the overlays project is to |
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continue our work in trying to get our users much more involved in |
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developing Gentoo. It's there to be a stepping stone for getting |
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packages into the tree - although I do not expect every package in |
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overlays to end up in the tree. Any hostile hijacking of other |
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people's packages doesn't fit into that vision, and there's no place |
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for it on o.g.o. |
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I also expect projects and developers who are not using overlays to be |
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equally respectful of those who are. There are projects and |
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developers who find overlays an excellent way of safely testing and |
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developing ebuilds, and who find overlays to be a good way to help |
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train and develop the next generation of Gentoo developers (good |
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developers are something we really need more of). |
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If any overlay is ultimately an abuse of the hosting that the overlays |
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project provides, then your first course of redress is with the |
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overlay's owner. If you're still unhappy, then come and talk to me as |
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the Overlays Project team lead. I'm here to listen, and if necessary |
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to act. If I don't agree, you can still go to the Council as a last |
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resort if you feel that strongly about it. |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/policy.xml |
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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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