Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: The future of the Sunrise project)

[Daniel Campbell]

On 06/13/2016 10:59 AM, Duncan wrote:
> M. J. Everitt posted on Mon, 13 Jun 2016 09:09:13 +0100 as excerpted:
>
>> On 13/06/16 09:04, Alexander Berntsen wrote:
>>> On 11/06/16 09:00, Michał Górny wrote:
>>>> If you are not going to maintain your contribution, we can't
>>>> guarantee it will be accepted. I'm certainly not interested in having
>>>> to worry about 20 more maintainer-needed packages next month because
>>>> someone contributed an ebuild that seemed good enough.
>>> This is a good point. Contributions that no devs are willing to
>>> maintain would not make it into the curated and reviewed repositories I
>>> am referring to.
>>>
>>> As an aside, perhaps we should start featuring third-party overlays
>>> more prominently, as this is where these ebuilds belong.
>>
>> Excuse me .. and this thread emerged from deprecating the EXACT thing
>> you are suggesting!?
>
> Hardly.  There are many project, developer and advanced user overlays,
> many of which are available via layman, while others may only be on github
> or elsewhere.  The one deprecated and under discussion for removal in
> this thread is sunrise, which was a great idea in its time but has now
> been left behind by further developments, including more individual
> overlays in layman, and the continued rise in popularity of github.  In
> fact, the effect has been so large that sunrise has effectively
> stagnated, and nobody noticed it for months.  Now that people have
> noticed it, they/we are simply recognizing the change in usage after-the-
> fact and debating the most useful way to shut down just the one single
> overlay, because others have succeeded so well that there's little need
> for the special incubator role sunrise once played any longer.
>
+1

Bam, nailed it.

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