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On Friday 15 September 2006 05:22, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: |
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> > Not sure about the links from the overlays.g.o, gentooscience.org was |
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> > created before the overlays think had even been discussed as a solution |
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> > to a problem. It is advertised here, and on the IRC channel but it would |
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> > be good to get it more widely advertised. |
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> Pretty sure they're not interested in linking to external overlays. If |
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> you want a link, and to save some time on maintenance and future |
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> breakage, it might be easier to just migrate to their hosting. |
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Like I said I set this up before overlays was available. I don't mind |
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performing the maintenance but if most would rather migrate then that is fine |
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with me too. I don't think there is anything special about overlays.g.o but |
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my time is becoming more limited anyway and so handing off administration |
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would not be a bad thing. |
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I personally think trac adds little more than a source browser - the ticket |
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system needs work to be more useful and I haven't had time to work out the |
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niggles. It gets spammed regularly too. I notice they have turned it off |
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(which is what I was thinking of doing). |
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To quote from their site 'You don't have to have an overlay at all, and if you |
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do have one, you are absolutely free to host your own overlay somewhere else. |
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You don't have to host an overlay on o.g.o for it to be |
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considered "official".' If the general opinion is to move then please let me |
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know and I will contact someone from the project about migrating the overlay. |
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I really dislike how the authentication is not encrypted (or is it now?), but |
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that may be just me and my opinions/levels of paranoia on the whole thing... |
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It appears you don't have to go on o.g.o to be "official" whatever that means |
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according to their own web page - see the bottom of |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/devguide.xml |
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Give me opinions guys. I am not going to hold the overlay hostage but I would |
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rather it was moved for a real reason rather than this being the latest new |
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shiny thing... I can place a full back up of the SVN repo online somewhere if |
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you want to move it or have a copy... |
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