Re: [gentoo-science] website python error

[Andrey G. Grozin]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
> On Friday 15 September 2006 08:50, Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > > Pretty sure they're not interested in linking to external overlays. If
> > > you want a link, and to save some time on maintenance and future
> > > breakage, it might be easier to just migrate to their hosting.
> > I think this is an excellent idea. First-class inofficial overlays live at
> > overlays.gentoo.org; we want the same status, we don't want to be second-
> > (or third-) class.
>
> I think this statement is incorrect about first or second class overlays.
> According to their own FAQs that is not the case. My own personal belief says
> it certainly is not that case. To make a more reasoned case you have to ask
> what the actual benefits of a move might be, i.e. bigger admin team, more
> widely used/tested, shiny gentoo.org domain ending...
>
> But like I said in my last response if the overall opinion is to move I will
> make the subversion repo backup available for migration of the overlay. I set
> it up as a service for the Gentoo scientific community before any of this was
> available as we were sick of waiting for it to appear... Now it has may be
> the overlay would be better there. I am not sure - I doubt it would hurt
> though...
Suppose I am a Gentoo user, and I want to try some new package (or a 
bleeding-edge version) which is not in the main tree. I search the Gentoo 
website for links to some experimental overlays (something like rpmforge 
and freshrpms in the RedHat world). And aha! I find overlays.gentoo.org 
(and nothing else). If the package I want is in one of the overlays there, 
I am happy. If not, I am stuck.

In other words, overlays.gentoo.org lives on the Gentoo continent; 
gentooscience.org is an island in the middle of nowhere.

Andrey
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