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From: Andres Loeh <kosmikus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:49:21
Message-Id: 20060324154126.GE3931@iai.uni-bonn.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support by Stuart Herbert
1 > On 3/24/06, Andres Loeh <kosmikus@g.o> wrote:
2 > > Here's a list of things that I think are essential or highly helpful to
3 > > our working process:
4 > >
5 > > * We should be allowed to continue using darcs for our version management.
6 > > If that's not possible on Gentoo infra, we should be allowed to host on
7 > > another machine and just have a pointer or ChangeLog on o.g.o.
8 >
9 > Unless I've missed it, no-one else has spoken up and suggested what
10 > the second VCS should be. I'll have a play with darcs as soon as I
11 > can, and talk with infra about whether we can support it or not. Is
12 > it okay if I come and pick your brains to help with this?
13
14 Sure. Best place to find any of us is #gentoo-haskell ...
15
16 > > * It should be possible for us to assign commit permissions to any people
17 > > we think are qualified without any formalities and delay.
18 >
19 > Absolutely. This is one of the corner-stones of the project.
20
21 Great.
22
23 > > It would work, of course, and it would help prevent certain complaints,
24 > > but it's not absolutely necessary. If "on request" is chosen, it's also
25 > > important that read access can be given by us without any delay, i.e.,
26 > > without going through any formal process.
27 >
28 > The only formallity is that the request will need to come from the
29 > project lead listed on your project's page under
30 > www.g.o/proj/<lang>/<project>/. I need to talk to infra first, but in
31 > principle I don't see a problem with project leads being allowed to
32 > delegate that power.
33
34 At the moment, Haskell is only a herd and a team, not a project. But this
35 is certainly something that can be addressed, should it be necessary to
36 change that.
37
38 Cheers,
39 Andres

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support Michael Cummings <mcummings@g.o>