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 1FoVfT-0002Yu-Rk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 01:20:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k591IGZT026598; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 01:18:16 GMT Received: from rs26s12.datacenter.cha.cantv.net (rs26s12.datacenter.cha.cantv.net [200.44.33.31]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k591FOs7001600 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 01:15:25 GMT Received: from localhost (dC9D13795.dslam-01-3-15-01-1-01.smg.dsl.cantv.net [201.209.55.149]) by rs26s12.datacenter.cha.cantv.net (8.13.4/8.13.0/3.0) with ESMTP id k591FNgQ016043 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 21:15:23 -0400 X-Matched-Lists: [] Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost with esmtp (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1FoVc9-0002C6-Fy for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Jun 2006 21:16:41 -0400 Message-ID: <4488CBF9.2030502@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 21:16:41 -0400 From: Luis Francisco Araujo User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060530) 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] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.2, clamav-milter version 0.88.2 on rs26s12.datacenter.cha.cantv.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Archives-Salt: dd6f6cf7-09b3-44d1-8ea0-a943500b8d7e X-Archives-Hash: 36843d8efb699bbb289a3f53ecd3510b Peter wrote: > On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 02:42:03 +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> I have founded a new Gentoo Project for the Gentoo User Overlay. >> >> The intention is to give contributors a single place to put their ebuilds - >> a place where they can be downloaded, updated and be moved to portage more >> easily than through bugzilla. It is also a good place for users who would >> like to become developers to learn how to commit and how to not break the >> tree. >> >> > I think this answers an important shortcoming of the bugzilla approach: > vis, some bugs will never make it to the tree -- for any number of > reasons. Take, for example, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103354, > which has an enhancement request for what is now called beyond-sources. A > amalgamation of the arch, ck, tiger, nitro, and suspend2 sources. While on > the kernel, IRC, I enquired about it, since I had just updated an ebuild > for it, and was told unequivocally that there was no interest on the > kernel team's part for adding this source tree to sys-kernel. Not maybe, > not let's have a look at it, not come back in a month after testing. Just > NO. > > And, I'm fine with that. That's their job -- to protect the quality of > their project, and to keep things relatively safe and manageable. > > Nonetheless, the bug is active, with a good number of people subscribing > to it and contributing to it. The sunshine overlay would be an ideal place > to store a kernel source tree or any project which would never find a home > in portage. > > If the ebuild will never find a home in portage, then it shouldn't be officially supported. What you are proposing is like to setup a parallel portage tree. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list