Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] bayesiam SPAM filter 'bogofilter' ebuild on bugzilla

[Evan Read]

Hey all,

If I may chime in:

> As I also said in that e-mail I sent to Evan, don't you think a better
> interface to commit new ebuilds, being considered for inclusion in the
> official tree, or just to use by those willing to try out something
> too
> unstable - e.g. CVS versions -,  might be nice? Something like a
> ebuilds
> 'alt' repository where non-core Gentoo developers might send theirs,
> as
> core developers might have their non-official packages, kde-cvs or
> gnome-2 in the past come to my mind.
> I find bugzilla a bit awkward for this task, it is right to file bugs,
> but to search new ebuilds to try or even to be aware of those new
> submissions has ample space for improvement, IMHO.

I think our own CVS repository for our own ebuilds would be nice.  That 
way users would only need to "emerge alt-ebuilds" to pull down a tree 
into:

/usr/alt-portage/

To play with the ebuilds.  Perhaps then another user would need to be a 
"tester" and a third user "a seconder" and then a bugizilla bug could 
be files with the details of the testing and seconding (basically more 
eyes to look at it) asking for inclusion into the official tree.

But then, buzilla would be better if stuff moved into the repository 
much faster!  I am sure my ebuilds could go in (even better, put in 
Javier's) with a "testing" or even mask them.  They have been waiting 
weeks.

So an alternate tree has its disadvantages. We could keep one if 
bugzilla was streamlined.  But I am using a number of ebuilds I have 
gotten from bugzilla.  Much nicer to get ones out of masking.

> What do you think? Shall we try setting up something for the task? One
> could always put up his/her web page with non-official ebuilds, but
> something to join efforts would be nicer.

I have my ebuilds on http://eread.freeshell.org/ebuilds.html.  No, I am 
not volunteering but that is a suggested format ;)

Evan.

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