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 1FoXM8-00073D-HS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:08:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5937MGD012981; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 03:07:22 GMT Received: from rs25s12.datacenter.cha.cantv.net (rs25s12.datacenter.cha.cantv.net [200.44.33.106]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5935H2g027781 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 03:05:18 GMT Received: from localhost (dC9D13795.dslam-01-3-15-01-1-01.smg.dsl.cantv.net [201.209.55.149]) by rs25s12.datacenter.cha.cantv.net (8.13.4/8.13.0/3.0) with ESMTP id k5935H3C021652 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 23:05:17 -0400 X-Matched-Lists: [] Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost with esmtp (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1FoXKW-0002EC-29 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Jun 2006 23:06:36 -0400 Message-ID: <4488E5BB.4030206@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 23:06:35 -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] Project Sunrise thread -- a try of clarification References: <44887368.9030302@gentoo.org> <20060608192004.GC6526@osgiliath> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.2, clamav-milter version 0.88.2 on rs25s12.datacenter.cha.cantv.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Archives-Salt: b6fec403-7b68-44b1-ad18-d5137aa02b3d X-Archives-Hash: 7b9ae5234ef2d4be4487b01b7e9abb85 Stuart Herbert wrote: > On 6/8/06, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: >> Will you also review the code each and every ebuild pull down over the >> internet? > > The policy for overlays.gentoo.org hosting [1] is hopefully clear: as > the project leads, they're ultimately responsible (and therefore > accountable) for what goes into their project overlay - no matter > whether it's committed by a dev or by a user who has been entrusted > with commit rights to the overlay. > > The policy for what can go into an overlay is also hopefully clear: > overlays are for package trees, their patchsets, any docs, and any > downloadable tarballs that have nowhere else to be hosted. It's not > there to be $UPSTREAM, except for eselect modules, -config scripts and > the like that exist purely to support ebuilds in the package tree. > > I expect projects and developers who are using overlays to be > respectful of others. The whole point of the overlays project is to > continue our work in trying to get our users much more involved in > developing Gentoo. It's there to be a stepping stone for getting > packages into the tree - although I do not expect every package in > overlays to end up in the tree. Any hostile hijacking of other > people's packages doesn't fit into that vision, and there's no place > for it on o.g.o. > > I also expect projects and developers who are not using overlays to be > equally respectful of those who are. There are projects and > developers who find overlays an excellent way of safely testing and > developing ebuilds, and who find overlays to be a good way to help > train and develop the next generation of Gentoo developers (good > developers are something we really need more of). > That is being done with the per-group overlays. No need to have a maintainer-wanted official overlay for it. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list