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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G7RDF-00036H-Ix for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:25:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6V6NpUj000285; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:23:51 GMT Received: from smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.6]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6V6LqE4014455 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:21:52 GMT Received: from [172.23.170.137] (helo=anti-virus01-08) by smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G7RA0-0003sa-KK for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:21:52 +0100 Received: from [82.41.57.20] (helo=snowdrop.home) by asmtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1G7RA0-0004kv-2o for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:21:52 +0100 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:21:49 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Resignation Message-ID: <20060731072149.41285864@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: References: <1154314231.11516.10.camel@localhost> <20060731040614.5ec4b176@snowdrop.home> <200607302332.28056.brettholcomb@bellsouth.net> <20060731052751.0dc06ec2@snowdrop.home> <20060731063205.2c7e6cbe@snowdrop.home> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 92327cdc-460a-491e-bc27-29593f1a6078 X-Archives-Hash: a7e408fc97cc8ffa381417173d7c1ec8 On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:10:52 -0600 Ryan Hill wrote: | Britney Spears being the Sunrise Developers and the evacuees being.. | a bunch of packages that have no relevance whatsoever since they're | copies of ebuilds already in bugzilla? When Britney crashes and | burns the ebuilds aren't vapourized into a fine red mist. If Sunrise | bombs we're back to the status quo with nothing lost. ...except for users, developers and reputation. | Hostility aside, do you have any alternate ideas? I don't have a perfect solution, no. Unfortunately, knowing why one thing won't work doesn't automatically let you know what will. Having said that, any solution that's going to get acceptance from the QA conscious is pretty much going to have to be based around herd-oriented overlays rather than a huge general mishmash, and is going to have to be designed based around requirements rather than around what a few people can shove through before anyone notices... -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list