On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 20:00 +0100, Stuart Herbert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've created a new project, called Gentoo Seeds [1].  The aim of the project
> is to create stage4 tarballs which can be used to 'seed' new boxes with
> ready-built Gentoo solutions.

Uhh... "seeds"?

> Until we've gone through a few iterations and worked out the best way to
> create seeds, we're working in an overlay [2].  We certainly hope to bring
> the work into the main tree once things have settled down.

"bring the work to the main tree"?

As in... duplicate functionality already provided by catalyst for quite
some time?

Why hasn't anybody even *tried* to contact Release Engineering on
something like this, considering we already have all of the tools
necessary to complete this, as well as the expertise?

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation