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 1FoMJD-0002Cv-Eh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:20:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k58FHbRx007557; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 15:17:37 GMT Received: from egr.msu.edu (jeeves.egr.msu.edu [35.9.37.127]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k58FD7WH006706 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 15:13:08 GMT Received: from [35.9.129.93] (torx [35.9.129.93]) (authenticated bits=0) by egr.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k58FD6ba029363 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 11:13:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44883E56.7050506@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:12:22 -0400 From: Alec Warner Organization: Gentoo User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8 (X11/20060424) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay References: <1149772819.19443.10.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <20060608093213.e0ccb189.tcort@gentoo.org> <20060608144145.GA7696@cerberus.oppresses.us> In-Reply-To: <20060608144145.GA7696@cerberus.oppresses.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b61e15bb-bab5-47c4-888d-ab692f1cea49 X-Archives-Hash: 61999808a2b2d3d5b9f33aa1e301dc92 Jon Portnoy wrote: > On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 09:32:13AM -0400, Thomas Cort wrote: > >>On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:20:18 -0400 >>Chris Gianelloni wrote: >> >>>Please keep the games bugs in bugzilla. Making this change is a direct >>>change in games team policy without any prior notice to the games team >>>and without our permission. >> >>No one needs permission to put ebuilds from bugs.gentoo.org into an >>overylay. The ebuilds, assuming they have the proper header, are all >>"Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2". >> >>~tcort > > > I do not object to the concept of ebuilds in overlays. > > I do very much object to using any gentoo.org infrastructure or > subdomains to do so. If someone is going to tackle that, it should be > done outside of Gentoo proper. We don't need to be stuck maintaining and > supporting a semiofficial overlay. > It is my understanding the the Sunrise overlay is not open to "anyone to commit", so it is not a contrib/ The sunrise project is the owner of the overlay and they are responsible for it's contents. The people commiting are responsible for what they commit. The point of the Sunrise project as I understand it is to aid in the development of ebuilds in maintainer-wanted, such that they may improve and be added to the tree; as well as to give frequent 'not quite a dev' and 'I don't have a bunch of time but would like to help' people a place to commit to. -Alec -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list