From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FM79o-00073I-RV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:30:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2MHSZZZ000342; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:28:35 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2MHOWIE008075 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:24:32 GMT Received: from [65.115.53.39] (helo=[192.168.10.54]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1FM74R-00078I-LS for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:24:31 +0000 From: Daniel Ostrow Organization: The Gentoo Foundation, Inc. To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:24:40 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 References: <441F35B9.8000406@gentoo.org> <4421836A.8040000@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4421836A.8040000@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1716129.oFdHnOOioL"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200603221224.44222.dostrow@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: c8ac7565-d58c-47cb-b0cd-ffcc7d11ff03 X-Archives-Hash: 5f3df7d0a2ed09777d6b1973b06a6833 --nextPart1716129.oFdHnOOioL Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 22 March 2006 12:03, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Stuart Herbert wrote: > > I've been very happy with using svn+trac overlays to bridge this gap. > > They provide a sandbox for contributions to be shared and evaluated. > > They provide a place where I've been able to give commit access to > > non-devs, so that they can learn the ropes w/out threatening the > > Portage tree proper. They provide a place where people who just want > > to write docs for a single package can contribute. > > > > Overlays create a sense of participation that's lacking with Bugzilla > > patch submissions. Backed up with regular communication (I recommend > > not recruiting anyone who won't spend time in the IRC channels, but > > that's a personal preference), they help us get things done quicker. > > > > The downside with overlays at the moment is that they're scattered > > around the net, and if you don't know where to look they can be very > > hard to find. I've been talking with infra about providing > > overlays.g.o as a central hosting service for herd and individual > > developer overlays. Infra have been very supportive of the idea. I > > just need to free up some time to get the service launched. > > This definitely sounds like a fun idea. It would be even cooler if we > were using a distributed SCM on both ends that allowed for easy merging. I agree, I'd love to see something like this, that way I could have my xfce= =20 stuff someplace more public then my devspace....the only thing that would=20 have to be clear is how official the overlays actually were, e.g. how prone= =20 the team looking after the overlay would be to accepting bugs via the usual= =20 b.g.o channels etc. =2D-=20 Daniel Ostrow Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees Gentoo/{PPC,PPC64,DevRel} dostrow@gentoo.org --nextPart1716129.oFdHnOOioL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEIYhcsb0gXCN8LgURAngZAJ98e2+5r4euiWRpM7zQPWOmTBuQ+gCfbCtE AQkdHWvRd9s23Q/gG6/jM0A= =R8pF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1716129.oFdHnOOioL-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list