| 1 |
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 14:04 +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote: |
| 2 |
> Carsten Lohrke wrote: |
| 3 |
> > You should at least make it visible in bold letters on the overlay.g.o |
| 4 |
> > front page, what the conditions of each overlay are and which foo@g.o |
| 5 |
> > address bugs have to be assigned to. |
| 6 |
> |
| 7 |
> |
| 8 |
> Please, do not assume our users being stupid. They know that they are using |
| 9 |
> an ebuild from the sunrise overlay with zero support. They deliberately |
| 10 |
> typed |
| 11 |
> |
| 12 |
> "svn co http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/sunrise/category/application" |
| 13 |
> "emerge application" |
| 14 |
|
| 15 |
Umm... and what if they checkout the entire repository and get something |
| 16 |
they weren't expecting? |
| 17 |
|
| 18 |
I love how you simply just dismiss this possibility as something that |
| 19 |
either can't happen, or something that won't happen because the users |
| 20 |
will "know what they're doing" when they use this overlay. |
| 21 |
|
| 22 |
> And also there are only applications from maintainer-wanted or |
| 23 |
> maintainer-needed allowed in the overlay. Because packages are not supposed |
| 24 |
> to overwrite files from other ebuilds it is unlikely that they can cause |
| 25 |
> any damage to applications that have not been directly installed from the |
| 26 |
> overlay. |
| 27 |
|
| 28 |
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!! |
| 29 |
|
| 30 |
Oh wait... Are you serious? What if it is a library? What if it is an |
| 31 |
alternative to a library already in the tree? Hrrrmn... plot thickens. |
| 32 |
|
| 33 |
> > Also some warning that an overlay may |
| 34 |
> > break the tree or fubar the users system |
| 35 |
> That is not the intention of the overlay. Everyone can help fixing breakage, |
| 36 |
> it is not like with the current tree, where you have apps broken for a few |
| 37 |
> days, weeks or even months because the maintainer is unreachable. With |
| 38 |
> fixes (by users) spread all over bugzilla. |
| 39 |
|
| 40 |
Everyone that you happen to include as allowed to actually commit, you |
| 41 |
mean. As opposed to "everyone that can sign themselves up for |
| 42 |
bugzilla"? |
| 43 |
|
| 44 |
> It is designed to be more open and more easily fixable. |
| 45 |
|
| 46 |
Sure. More open then a self-registering system. Gotcha. |
| 47 |
|
| 48 |
-- |
| 49 |
Chris Gianelloni |
| 50 |
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
| 51 |
x86 Architecture Team |
| 52 |
Games - Developer |
| 53 |
Gentoo Linux |
Archives