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Jon Portnoy wrote: |
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>And millions of bug reports from users who don't realize they shouldn't |
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>report bugs to us on unofficial, unsupported ebuilds, plus users who |
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>don't realize Gentoo isn't responsible for any breakage, viruses, or |
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>whatever else propogated by an unofficial tree. |
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Jon, what John meant is maybe something like to just allow "qualified" |
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non devs to support work in the unofficial tree. I'm quite sure that |
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these non devs feel very responsible for their work. There might be some |
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BugReports in the beginning, but they will be handled by the responsible |
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non dev. Maybe some of these non devs will become a dev in the future or |
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where asked to become a dev in the past but just don't have the time for |
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such a responsible job (personally this is half of the true for me - the |
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other half is that i'm feeling that i'm still in the progress of learning). |
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On the other side i believe, that users accessing this unofficial tree |
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know what they are doing, so it should'nt reflect the official devs that |
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much. In my understanding this "feature" is requested by people which |
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are not that happy with the current situation (some of them are these |
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non devs we talking about). All of them are aware of the consequences. |
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This tree would be completely out of scope for "normal" users (they most |
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likely never get in touch with this unofficial tree). |
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Maybe all these mails are just a request for an "official" unofficial |
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tree!? The problem of lots of unsubmitted ebuilds in bugzilla has to be |
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adressed somehow. You should use the motiviatian and the added value |
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which these non devs would like to bring in. Don't offend them! |
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Thx, |
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Jan |
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PS: If someone of the non devs would ask me, i can say that i've found a |
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acceptable solution for my occasional activities: Just get a account for |
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any unofficial gentoo cvs tree and submitt your ebuilds there (and to |
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bugzilla also, of course). So you are able to maintain your ebuilds, get |
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familiar with repoman etc. and interessted people can use your ebuilds |
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by accessing this tree via PORTDIR_OVERLAY. |
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