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On Friday 24 March 2006 14:35, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> After reading through that fairly lengthy thread, I'm afraid that I can |
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> no longer tell exactly what is being proposed. Who has read access? |
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> Who has write access? Bugs are handled where, and by whom? Are we |
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> considering a fairly tightly controlled system, or a wild free-for-all? |
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> Exactly which problem are we proposing to solve here? |
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> If someone could succinctly summarize the current schools of thought, |
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> I'd be quite indebted. |
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As I understand it... |
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o.g.o would be used to host developer and team based overlays that are owned |
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an operated by existing Gentoo devs. Users would not be able to create their |
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own overlays hosted on this system. The developer(s) who own the overlay |
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would be able to control the granularity of access ranging from developers |
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only, to developers plus a few trusted users, to full public ro access. |
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As far as I read it, who handles the bugs and by what means at this point is |
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still up in the air as there seem to be some groups that would rather handle |
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bugs through their own mechanisims, be that IRC, e-mail, trac whathaveyou and |
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those that would like to be able to track bugs through bugs.g.o. |
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There is also the question of limiting the number of 'false' bug reports based |
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uppon overlay usage, it seems that the best way to work through this is by |
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augmenting the output of emerge --info. Things like a list of overridden |
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eclasses in the output and the capability to add a package as an arguement to |
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emerge --info in order to see if it is coming from an overlay seem to be good |
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starting points. |
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On a less technical note there is also the question of using the o.g.o |
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frontpage as a means to point to existing repositiories of user created |
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overlays in order to promote them. |
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Hope that helps, |
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Daniel Ostrow |
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Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees |
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Gentoo/{PPC,PPC64,DevRel} |
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dostrow@g.o |