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From: EBo <ebo@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-soc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-soc] Layman Improvements -- introductory report
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 20:58:02
Message-Id: 5a61f70b28b9d28d454e05622f49907a@mail.swcp.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-soc] Layman Improvements -- introductory report by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 On May 19 2014 1:37 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
2 > On 05/19/14 14:44, Devan Franchini wrote:
3 >> Hello Gentoo community!
4 >>
5 >> For this GSoC 2014 I've been accepted by the Gentoo Foundation to
6 >> work on
7 >> improvements to the Gentoo tool, Layman. I will have two mentors[1]
8 >> the official
9 >> one on my Google melange is Matthew Summers (quantumsummers)[2], and
10 >> Brian
11 >> Dolbec (dol-sen).
12 >>
13 >> Throughout the summer I hope to expand the available repo types
14 >> supported along
15 >> with adding new features such as:
16 >>
17 >> * Repo URL updating
18 >> * Syncing overlays through portage
19 >> * A utility script for creating layman XML definitions
20 >> * Per repo branch user settings.
21 >>
22 >> To list a few.
23 >>
24 >> Source Code:
25 >>
26 > Brian, Devan and Matt,
27 >
28 > Feature request: layamn -b <branch> <overlay> to switch branches on
29 > git overlays.
30
31 Not sure if it is appropriate to chime in, but I would also add a
32 feature request for a "-d <date/time stamp>" to checkout a repository
33 that is < date/time.
34
35 EBo --