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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HwMsM-0001DG-BK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:38:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l57IbNM3013246; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 18:37:23 GMT Received: from slimak.dkm.cz (smtp.dkm.cz [62.24.64.34]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l57IYqgC009773 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 18:34:52 GMT Received: (qmail 27502 invoked by uid 0); 7 Jun 2007 18:34:52 -0000 Received: from r141.net.upc.cz (HELO ?192.168.1.1?) (62.24.83.141) by smtp.dkm.cz with SMTP; 7 Jun 2007 18:34:49 -0000 Message-ID: <46684FBD.7010105@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:34:37 +0200 From: Vlastimil Babka User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070509) 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] [RFC] Non-Dev Contributors and the Tree References: <4667EF71.9010103@gentoo.org> <1181239361.15396.63.camel@workbox.quova.com> In-Reply-To: <1181239361.15396.63.camel@workbox.quova.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 OpenPGP: id=4E61DE84; url=subkeys.pgp.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3a014959-3f4c-4bb0-ab62-5cd9966139a3 X-Archives-Hash: 03d67dd63a8479d772e107c04392a381 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGaE+8tbrAj05h3oQRAqtqAKCeMu7nTKYosVtvMhQZxQXdz0wHhQCglNqa uBMP6ZZCoidKPlgruJWt6gE= =wsIC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list