On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 01:44:11 +0000 Herb Miller Jr. wrote: > If I am, then yes, some kind of automation > would be the only sane way to keep up In my experience you can't *really* rely on automation 100% for this sort of thing. Not while achieving quality results. Its viable for an overlay where there's no expectations of quality, but for the main tree, I find you want to have a human san-check everything and manually vet each upstream version for "anomalous things". Automation is good at handling the "known predictable" cases, humans are better at detecting "huh, that's weird, why did they do that?" Because you absolutely want to know if upstream added some stupid change that is harmful to Gentoo users before you blindly replicate it.