Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

[foser <foser@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 11:12 -0400, Alec Warner wrote:
> It is my understanding the the Sunrise overlay is not open to "anyone to 
> commit", so it is not a contrib/  The sunrise project is the owner of 
> the overlay and they are responsible for it's contents.  The people 
> commiting are responsible for what they commit.  The point of the 
> Sunrise project as I understand it is to aid in the development of 
> ebuilds in maintainer-wanted, such that they may improve and be added to 
> the tree; as well as to give frequent 'not quite a dev' and 'I don't 
> have a bunch of time but would like to help' people a place to commit to.

I don't think the problem with maintainer-wanted ebuilds is that they
are crappy, but that there is no dev willing to maintain them and ensure
their quality over time. 'sunrise' (who came up with that name ? cheap
asian poetry attempt) doesn't change that by adding it to an 'official'
overlay.

Instead of tackling the real problem -the lack of maintainers to deal
with all requests- 'sunrise' is trying to create a backdoor for
unreliable maintained stuff to enter the tree.

- foser

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