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Ben de Groot wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> The qting-edge overlay (the official overlay for the Gentoo Qt team) is |
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> a great success as a place to develop new ebuilds, packages, eclasses, |
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> to prepare new releases, to maintain bleeding edge stuff like live |
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> ebuilds and especially as a training ground for new recruits. I thought |
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> it would be a good idea to do something similar for our multimedia |
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> related projects, and Steve "beandog" Dibb agreed. |
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> So hereby we announce the Gentoo Multimedia overlay. It is located at |
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> http://gitorious.org/gentoo-multimedia and any developers who want to |
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> join can let us know their gitorious account name, so they can be added. |
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> Administration of the overlay will be shared among the participating |
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> Gentoo devs, so new committers can quickly be added. Any users that want |
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> commit status can get access after their work is found to be of |
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> sufficient quality. We encourage this, as the overlay is also a training |
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> ground for new contributors to Gentoo. |
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> We would like to invite anyone interested in developing and maintaining |
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> ebuilds related to multimedia in the wider sense: video, sound, tv, |
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> graphics and fonts. If you have any live ebuilds or otherwise bleeding |
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> edge packages, you can move them to the overlay for testing and shared |
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> maintenance. |
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Why isn't this on git.overlays.gentoo.org? |
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If it's not on Gentoo infrastructure, it's not "official." |
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