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Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> Thomas Sachau wrote: |
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>> I would like to ask all people, who get to users, who want to contribute with ebuilds or similar, |
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>> tell them about our sunrise overlay[1][2]. People can learn how to write ebuilds, they can learn how |
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>> to write ebuilds with some nice QA, they learn how to manage a SCM (in this case svn) and some may |
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>> even enhance to gentoo developers. :-) |
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>> As a side effect, we get a nice collection of ebuild, which are easily maintainable even by users |
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>> and which are easily accessable by everyone. |
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>> Esp. i would ask those who wrangle bug: If a user contributes an ebuild for an app not already in |
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>> portage, tell them about sunrise, so they help out a little bit more, if they are interested. With |
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>> that done, something like "sunrise suggested" in Whiteboard would be nice. |
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> I was told to try sunrise with some of my ebuilds. There's a reason I |
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> didn't, and I suspect it's the same other people also don't go to |
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> sunrise. There's no good way of contributing an ebuild. There's no |
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> bugzilla or website where I can upload the ebuild. All I'm told is to |
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> go to IRC. I would as well might have been required to go to McDonald's. |
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Well, sunrise is not about uploading a package just somewhere but about |
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having it reviewed and corrected such that it follows basic guidelines. |
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Since this process requires bi-directional communication, IRC is a good |
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(low-latency) way to do that. |
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And if you'd have read the sunrise project site you'd know that all |
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ebuilds in sunrise need a corresponding "ebuild request" bug in |
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bugzilla. |
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I know that this requires more time from people writing ebuilds getting |
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their work in sunrise than just to upload it somewhere. |
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On the plus side we had many people recruited via the sunrise project |
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(including myself), we can provide a minimal support for people having |
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problems with ebuilds in the sunrise overlay and provide a minimal |
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guarantee that the ebuilds should work, not include trojans/malware, |
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etc. |
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Now, since the sunrise project gets bigger, we might also create a |
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mailinglist to discuss ebuilds for people can't/do not want to use IRC. |
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This would also make it possible to CC the mailinglist-address for bugs |
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where the ebuilds are in sunrise. |
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Cheers, |
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Tiziano |
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