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On 15:16 Wed 08 Jun, Alexander Berntsen wrote: |
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> Friends, |
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> It would be wise of us to create a novel way of involving users from |
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> the ashes of Sunrise. |
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> Here is my suggestion: It would be fruitful to encourage every single |
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> Gentoo user to have their own repository. And this repository should |
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> be publicly available. |
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> This way we can merge useful things from people, and they can submit |
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> pull-requests if they have useful things that are not in the tree. |
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> Before merging anything to the main tree, ebuilds should of course be |
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> carefully reviewed. Users could also review each other's ebuilds to |
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> ensure better quality ebuilds. |
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> This could lead to a future where the Gentoo tree is largely |
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> superseded. Every user would just have their own repository, where |
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> they could pick and choose packages from other users. The Gentoo tree |
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> would just focus on a high-quality repository of the basic/core things |
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> that everybody needs. Gentoo devs would spend most of their time |
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> maintaining curated small and useful repositories. |
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How all those people are expected to coordinate their work? I mean if |
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personA is going to drop the library that is required by personB, |
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personC and personD he should probably notify them beforehands. Thus he |
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needs a tool to monitor who the hell depends on him. Either that or all |
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repo masters will have to bundle their own versions of every library |
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that is not in ::gentoo in order to prevent sudden breackages. |
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