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On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 13:29 -0400, Peter wrote: |
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> As an example, there is a kernel source build I've been playing with. I |
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> know, from the kernel team, it will never, repeat NEVER, get onto the |
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> portage tree. they want no part of it. However, the bug is widely |
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> followed, and if Sunrise were to be a home to it, then these bug readers |
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> would be able to continue to work on the project. Why should it just waste |
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> away on bz? See bug # 103354 started by Scott Jones who did most of the |
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> work on it. This kernel source is also tracked on the gentoo forums. |
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Using your example, if it will *never* make it into the tree, then what |
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is it doing on *.gentoo.org infrastructure? |
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The authors are more than welcome to host this on their own. There's |
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absolutely zero reason for us to "support" it in any way, including our |
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infrastructure, if there's absolutely no way that it will *ever* make it |
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into the tree. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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Games - Developer |
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