On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 07:43 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote:
> What I would like to propose is that we have an official (yes, official)
> cvs overlay that is used by developers *and* contributors to commit new
> ebuilds and changes to. Mirrors would still pull, as they always have,
> from the gentoo-x86 cvs repo. "Official" Gentoo developers would then be
> able to take from the overlay and commit to the main tree at will, but
> have a common stomping ground for contributors and developers to work in
> without fear of breaking the rest of the tree. We reward those users
> (pardon the terms if you find that condescending, its not intended as
> such) with the drive and passion, but not the means, resources, or time,
> by making them contributors to this overlay, where they can make cvs
> commits.
> 
> This overlay wouldn't necessarily need to be the whole of the tree,
> either. Some areas, such as profiles, could be absent, as well as select
> projects (perhaps the kernel and toolchain portions?). These
> contributors wouldn't need to have a flood of @gentoo.org email
> addresses - they are only contributors who, for whatever reason, are not
> actually full scale developers.

I'm just asking, but isn't this exactly what Sunrise is supposed to be?

Isn't this the reason it was approved by the previous Council?

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