Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Non-Dev Contributors and the Tree

[Vlastimil Babka <caster@gentoo.org>]

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Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 07:43 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote:
>> What I would like to propose is that we have an official (yes, official)
>> cvs overlay that is used by developers *and* contributors to commit new
>> ebuilds and changes to. Mirrors would still pull, as they always have,
>> from the gentoo-x86 cvs repo. "Official" Gentoo developers would then be
>> able to take from the overlay and commit to the main tree at will, but
>> have a common stomping ground for contributors and developers to work in
>> without fear of breaking the rest of the tree. We reward those users
>> (pardon the terms if you find that condescending, its not intended as
>> such) with the drive and passion, but not the means, resources, or time,
>> by making them contributors to this overlay, where they can make cvs
>> commits.
>>
>> This overlay wouldn't necessarily need to be the whole of the tree,
>> either. Some areas, such as profiles, could be absent, as well as select
>> projects (perhaps the kernel and toolchain portions?). These
>> contributors wouldn't need to have a flood of @gentoo.org email
>> addresses - they are only contributors who, for whatever reason, are not
>> actually full scale developers.
> 
> I'm just asking, but isn't this exactly what Sunrise is supposed to be?
> 
> Isn't this the reason it was approved by the previous Council?

Well the difference is that AFAIK Sunrise is just for maintainer-wanted
stuff that's not in the tree yet, but Michael talks about (rev)bumps of
stuff that's already in tree.

Personally I think that project/herd overlays with non-dev contributors
already work well (at least for Java team) and don't see much benefit in
some overlay for everything.
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Vlastimil Babka (Caster)
Gentoo/Java
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