Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] bugs.g.o supported overlays should register

[Jeremy Olexa]

Jeroen Roovers wrote:
>      Hi folks,
>
>
> in light of some recent discussions where overlay maintainers found
> that bug reports had been assigned "incorrectly" and thought it was apt
> to inform the miscellaneous bug wranglers of the correct assignees, I
> thought it would be a good idea to introduce a new list, akin to
> metadata.xml and herds.xml, to resolve this issue once and for all. As
> with herds and metadata, this overlays.xml should list a repository's
> name, HOMEPAGE and the e-mail address(es) of its maintainers.
>
> In the absence of such information, a bug wrangler may assign the bug
> report to someone who has contributed to the overlay in question, or to
> anyone who might reasonably know whom to properly assign the bug report
> to.
>
> In case assignment goes awry, and when the assignee is part of the team
> of proper assignees, then the team or assignee should make sure
> overlays.xml is updated to reflect the current maintainance status and
> should add the remainder of the assignees themselves. Nothing else
> needs to be done in this case - the next time a different bug wrangler
> might be handling a bug report about that overlay, so CC'ing or pinging
> (on IRC) doesn't make sense - updating overlays.xml would. If the
> assignee is not part of the maintainer team of the overlay in question,
> then the bug may be bounced back to bug-wranglers@g.o.
>
> Please discuss.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>      jer
>

So you are asking for the layman file to be updated properly or what?

layman -i <overlay name>

IMO, what would really benefit us is to have a site akin to 
http://gpo.zugaina.org/ on a Gentoo host to *find* packages that are in 
'official' overlays.

-Jeremy