[gentoo-dev] List of User projects

[gentoo-dev] List of User projects

[Alistair Bush]

I was just thinking how nice it could be if we acknowledged some of the 
projects that contribute to gentoo but are actually developed primarily 
outside of gentoo's dev community.  How about a page on gentoo.org

So lets me start with a couple of obvious ones.

kportagetray
pkgcore
paludis


There must be more than these or else gentoo really is dead.

- Alistair

ps.  I would like the packages to be specifically for gentoo,  but there are 
exceptions to this.  as an example openrc (and even paludis to a degree).  If 
you think that there is a package not specifically targetting gentoo that 
deserves a mention please make it clear why.

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] List of User projects

[Luis Francisco Araujo]

Alistair Bush wrote:
> I was just thinking how nice it could be if we acknowledged some of the 
> projects that contribute to gentoo but are actually developed primarily 
> outside of gentoo's dev community.  How about a page on gentoo.org
> 
> So lets me start with a couple of obvious ones.
> 
> kportagetray
> pkgcore
> paludis
> 
> 
> There must be more than these or else gentoo really is dead.
> 
> - Alistair
> 
> ps.  I would like the packages to be specifically for gentoo,  but there are 
> exceptions to this.  as an example openrc (and even paludis to a degree).  If 
> you think that there is a package not specifically targetting gentoo that 
> deserves a mention please make it clear why.
> 

The set of graphical front-ends for portage:

portato
porthole
himerge

And yes, it'd be nice to have a page listing these kind of projects.


-- 

Luis F. Araujo "araujo at gentoo.org"
Gentoo Linux

Re: [gentoo-dev] List of User projects

[René 'Necoro' Neumann]

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Am 28.03.2010 10:30, schrieb Luis Francisco Araujo:
> himerge

Hey :P - you are a gentoo dev :P

I think probably most of the app-portage category falls in here (as
portage is the only "gentoo-specific" thing one can develop stuff for):

eix, etc-proposals, gpytage, ...
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Re: [gentoo-dev] List of User projects

[Luis Francisco Araujo]

René 'Necoro' Neumann wrote:
> Am 28.03.2010 10:30, schrieb Luis Francisco Araujo:
>> himerge
> 
> Hey :P - you are a gentoo dev :P
> 
> I think probably most of the app-portage category falls in here (as
> portage is the only "gentoo-specific" thing one can develop stuff for):
> 
> eix, etc-proposals, gpytage, ...

But himerge is not an official Gentoo project. So I guess
it falls into the category of "user developed projects" :P

-- 

Luis F. Araujo "araujo at gentoo.org"
Gentoo Linux

[gentoo-dev] Re: List of User projects

[Duncan]

Alistair Bush posted on Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:13:14 +1300 as excerpted:

> I was just thinking how nice it could be if we acknowledged some of the
> projects that contribute to gentoo but are actually developed primarily
> outside of gentoo's dev community.  How about a page on gentoo.org
> 
> So lets me start with a couple of obvious ones.
> 
> kportagetray
> pkgcore
> paludis
> 
> 
> There must be more than these or else gentoo really is dead.
> 
> - Alistair
> 
> ps.  I would like the packages to be specifically for gentoo,  but there
> are exceptions to this.  as an example openrc (and even paludis to a
> degree).  If you think that there is a package not specifically
> targetting gentoo that deserves a mention please make it clear why.

[Hmm... Was followup not set?  It tried to post to the announce list too!  
That's a no-no for replies!  Luckily gmane has it set read-only so my news 
client gave me a warning.]

So you mention openrc, but don't have it on the list?

FWIW, I've not looked, but I think a number of the portage helpers are
non-gentoo-dev developed, and certainly a number previously were, that 
have ultimately been folded back into portage and/or gentoolkit in someway 
or another now.  I'm sure someone from one of those projects can list 
several of them without even looking.

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: List of User projects

[Alistair Bush]

> 
> So you mention openrc, but don't have it on the list?
> 

Yes because openrc isn't really gentoo-specific.   I don't want the list 
blowing out to include ever package in the entire tree.   ie. Thanking gcc for 
contributing to gentoo.

Note this doesn't mean that openrc won't be on the list.  I think that in this 
case the dev has worked closely enough with gentoo to deserve acknowledgment. 
(being a former dev might have helped that :) ) 

Maybe it will be in a "Non-Gentoo specific" section of the list,  or something.   
My point at the moment is to distinguish it from something like 
pkgcore/paludis which were developed with gentoo firmly as the target platform.

> FWIW, I've not looked, but I think a number of the portage helpers are
> non-gentoo-dev developed, and certainly a number previously were, that
> have ultimately been folded back into portage and/or gentoolkit in someway
> or another now.  I'm sure someone from one of those projects can list
> several of them without even looking.

Well i'm more interested in what is being developed verses what were 
developed.  But that is an interesting possibility,  not surprising but 
interesting none the less.

[gentoo-dev] Re: List of User projects

[Duncan]

Alistair Bush posted on Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:21:23 +1300 as excerpted:


>> So you mention openrc, but don't have it on the list?
>> 
>> 
> Yes because openrc isn't really gentoo-specific.   I don't want the list
> blowing out to include ever package in the entire tree.   ie. Thanking
> gcc for contributing to gentoo.
> 
> Note this doesn't mean that openrc won't be on the list.  I think that
> in this case the dev has worked closely enough with gentoo to deserve
> acknowledgment. (being a former dev might have helped that :) )
> 
> Maybe it will be in a "Non-Gentoo specific" section of the list,  or
> something. My point at the moment is to distinguish it from something
> like pkgcore/paludis which were developed with gentoo firmly as the
> target platform.

I don't disagree with your idea, and I'm not /really/ the partisan openrc 
booster this might cause me to appear to be, it's just that it and the 
portage helpers are more than likely pretty much it, and I /am/ trying to 
understand the distinction being made:

What other distributions (*BSD, Linux, or...) do you know that use 
openrc?  IOW, I know it was designed to be distribution independent, but I 
don't know of anyone else using it (well, other than Gentoo derivatives), 
and Gentoo certainly influenced it.

Meanwhile, portage, and thus the various app-portage/* tools, as 
mentioned, should be usable on many of those same Gentoo derivatives.

And paludis and friends, while being designed for more independent use 
(much like openrc), again, is it (are they) actually part of any non-
Gentoo-based distribution?

The point being, perhaps I'm wrong and openrc does have a broader 
distribution basis than I'm aware of, but in practice, it seems all of 
these tend to be used /almost/ exclusively with Gentoo and Gentoo based 
distributions.  If openrc's usage is rather wider than I'm aware of, well 
then, I'm about to learn that. =:^)

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: List of User projects

[Richard Freeman]

On 03/28/2010 10:27 AM, Duncan wrote:
> The point being, perhaps I'm wrong and openrc does have a broader
> distribution basis than I'm aware of, but in practice, it seems all of
> these tend to be used /almost/ exclusively with Gentoo and Gentoo based
> distributions.  If openrc's usage is rather wider than I'm aware of, well
> then, I'm about to learn that. =:^)
>

Well, I'm sure there is an openrc list somewhere that might be a better 
forum for these kinds of discussions, but I suspect that they need to 
walk before they run.  Right now openrc isn't even the stable init 
system for Gentoo.

I know that their goal was to be completely distro-neutral, and once it 
stabilizes we might see it happen.  It certainly would be very useful - 
it would standardize a ton of stuff across distros.

Rich

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: List of User projects

[Wulf C. Krueger]

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> And paludis and friends, while being designed for more independent use
> (much like openrc), again, is it (are they) actually part of any non-
> Gentoo-based distribution?

Yes. Paludis is Exherbo's package manager.

Best regards, Wulf

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[gentoo-dev] Re: List of User projects

[Duncan]

Wulf C. Krueger posted on Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:55:12 +0200 as excerpted:

>> And paludis and friends, while being designed for more independent use
>> (much like openrc), again, is it (are they) actually part of any non-
>> Gentoo-based distribution?
> 
> Yes. Paludis is Exherbo's package manager.

FWIW, I categorized that as "Gentoo based"... tho how much it has expanded 
beyond that by now isn't something I'd know without being told...

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: List of User projects

[Wulf C. Krueger]

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> > Yes. Paludis is Exherbo's package manager.
> FWIW, I categorized that as "Gentoo based"... tho how much it has expanded
> beyond that by now isn't something I'd know without being told...

It has never been Gentoo-based, Duncan. You might perceive it like that 
because Gentoo has often embraced our concepts for recent EAPIs, though.

Best regards, Wulf

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: List of User projects

[Jacob Godserv]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:27, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
> What other distributions (*BSD, Linux, or...) do you know that use
> openrc?  IOW, I know it was designed to be distribution independent, but I
> don't know of anyone else using it (well, other than Gentoo derivatives),
> and Gentoo certainly influenced it.

Last I checked, Ubuntu is going to adopt it. How's that for a compliment? :)
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/18452/

-- 
    Jacob

    "For then there will be great distress, unequaled
    from the beginning of the world until now — and never
    to be equaled again. If those days had not been cut
    short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the
    elect those days will be shortened."

    Are you ready?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: List of User projects

[Jacob Godserv]

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 15:30, Jacob Godserv <jacobgodserv@gmail.com> wrote:
> Last I checked, Ubuntu is going to adopt it. How's that for a compliment? :)
> http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/18452/

Sorry for the extra e-mail, but I should clarify:
"Ubuntu is seriously considering adopting it."

-- 
    Jacob

    "For then there will be great distress, unequaled
    from the beginning of the world until now — and never
    to be equaled again. If those days had not been cut
    short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the
    elect those days will be shortened."

    Are you ready?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: List of User projects

[Michał Górny]

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On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 15:31:20 -0400
Jacob Godserv <jacobgodserv@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 15:30, Jacob Godserv <jacobgodserv@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Last I checked, Ubuntu is going to adopt it. How's that for a
> > compliment? :) http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/18452/
> 
> Sorry for the extra e-mail, but I should clarify:
> "Ubuntu is seriously considering adopting it."

No offence but '-15' doesn't sounds as serious as '344' for upstart.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

<http://mgorny.alt.pl>
<xmpp:mgorny@jabber.ru>

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Re: [gentoo-dev] List of User projects

[Brian Harring]

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Skip to the end for a counterproposal...

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 05:13:14PM +1300, Alistair Bush wrote:
> I was just thinking how nice it could be if we acknowledged some of the 
> projects that contribute to gentoo but are actually developed primarily 
> outside of gentoo's dev community.  How about a page on gentoo.org
> 
> So lets me start with a couple of obvious ones.
> 
> kportagetray
> pkgcore
> paludis
> 
> 
> There must be more than these or else gentoo really is dead.
diffball (the basis of y'alls delta compression for tarball 
snapshots, progenitor of tarsync used by emerge-*webrsync, etc).

> ps.  I would like the packages to be specifically for gentoo,  but there are 
> exceptions to this.  as an example openrc (and even paludis to a degree).  If 
> you think that there is a package not specifically targetting gentoo that 
> deserves a mention please make it clear why.

I'm a bit torn by this proposal; on the one hand, a shout out is nice- 
from a career angle it certainly would've been useful for getting 
some attention/exposure when I first was starting out.

That said, it has some issues with it:

* it'll wind up being a fairly subjective list leading to some 
debates nobody really wants to be involved in (nice euphemism for 
flamewars).
*) the criteria seems to be external projects that are gentoo 
specific, aparently by non-devs/ex-devs.  This raises some questions 
as to what happens for when it's created by a dev externally (pkgcore 
went external a long while before I became an exdev), and what 
happens when the author becomes a dev (I'll be getting my gentoo-x86 
+w back soon enough).
*) PMS was started outside of gentoo, and maintained outside gentoo 
for a long while.  Now it's a gentoo project.  A shout out there 
would've been warranted (spec work isn't exactly sexy, regardless of 
any extra baggage that came w/ PMS), but at what point does it 
suddenly fall off this list?
*) kind of the packagekit connundrum- at least for pkgcore/paludis, 
they were written to support multiple distros/formats internally.  Yes 
they've got traction w/in gentoo, but at what point is it no longer a 
gentoo specific thing, and more of a "it gained it's first traction in 
gentoo" ?  Openrc I'd argue is in the same boat- yes it can be used 
elsewhere, but right now we're the owns extracting the most benefit 
from it.
*) it slights the tools that started w/in gentoo's vcs; consider 
scanelf .  Very useful tool deserving some credit, but it would be 
exempted under these rules.


Instead, if the purpose is a "thanks", why not every once in a while 
put up a news item discussing the tools in question?  Such an 
approach allows folk to focus in on whatever is useful/interesting 
(regardless of origination) and give the same 'thanks' angle and 
public exposure for the author in question.

Note also it'd likely be interesting to read.

~harring

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Re: [gentoo-dev] List of User projects

[René 'Necoro' Neumann]

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Am 28.03.2010 21:04, schrieb Brian Harring:
> Instead, if the purpose is a "thanks", why not every once in a while 
> put up a news item discussing the tools in question?  Such an 
> approach allows folk to focus in on whatever is useful/interesting 
> (regardless of origination) and give the same 'thanks' angle and 
> public exposure for the author in question.

Like the "Gentoo Weekly/Monthly Newsletter" (R.I.P.)?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] List of User projects

[Brian Harring]

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On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:07:52PM +0200, Rennn 'Necoro' Neumann wrote:
> Am 28.03.2010 21:04, schrieb Brian Harring:
> > Instead, if the purpose is a "thanks", why not every once in a while 
> > put up a news item discussing the tools in question?  Such an 
> > approach allows folk to focus in on whatever is useful/interesting 
> > (regardless of origination) and give the same 'thanks' angle and 
> > public exposure for the author in question.
> 
> Like the "Gentoo Weekly/Monthly Newsletter" (R.I.P.)?

Pretty much the notion, although I'd avoid the monthly angle- that 
seems to be the downfall of GWN and kin.
~harring

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Re: [gentoo-dev] List of User projects

[Joshua Saddler]

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On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:09:07 -0700
Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:07:52PM +0200, Rennn 'Necoro' Neumann wrote:
> > Am 28.03.2010 21:04, schrieb Brian Harring:
> > > Instead, if the purpose is a "thanks", why not every once in a while 
> > > put up a news item discussing the tools in question?  Such an 
> > > approach allows folk to focus in on whatever is useful/interesting 
> > > (regardless of origination) and give the same 'thanks' angle and 
> > > public exposure for the author in question.
> > 
> > Like the "Gentoo Weekly/Monthly Newsletter" (R.I.P.)?
> 
> Pretty much the notion, although I'd avoid the monthly angle- that 
> seems to be the downfall of GWN and kin.
> ~harring

I still try to put up articles of interest whenever someone sends 'em to PR's way, or when I find out there's some interesting use of Gentoo out there. The Misa guitar comes to mind. But covering each and every little bit of software written for Gentoo is too much work for one guy, or even a folks. 'Specially since they so often go defunct after a very short time -- I'm thinking of all the Portage frontends in particular.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] List of User projects

[René 'Necoro' Neumann]

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Am 29.03.2010 01:47, schrieb Joshua Saddler:
> 'Specially since they so often go defunct after a very short time -- I'm thinking of all the Portage frontends in particular.

Don't know what you are talking about :) ... Portato is now in its
fourth year -- porthole is even older.

Though I admit, that there is some kind of "functionality-oscillation".
But if you ever tried to program against an undocumented API, with
functionality that often changes in subtle ways, you'll know why ^^.

- - René
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Re: [gentoo-dev] List of User projects

[Alistair Bush]

> 
> diffball (the basis of y'alls delta compression for tarball
> snapshots, progenitor of tarsync used by emerge-*webrsync, etc).
> 

Thank you Brian for that pkg, its appreciated.  My apologies if the rest is a 
little less kind.

> > ps.  I would like the packages to be specifically for gentoo,  but there
> > are exceptions to this.  as an example openrc (and even paludis to a
> > degree).  If you think that there is a package not specifically
> > targetting gentoo that deserves a mention please make it clear why.
> 
> I'm a bit torn by this proposal; on the one hand, a shout out is nice-
> from a career angle it certainly would've been useful for getting
> some attention/exposure when I first was starting out.
> 

Not really my aim.  Im not planning on listing ppl,  just there work.  Might 
not even put a url pointing to it.

> That said, it has some issues with it:
> 
> * it'll wind up being a fairly subjective list leading to some
> debates nobody really wants to be involved in (nice euphemism for
> flamewars).

Well I suppose it would be my project,  therefore I would make the call.  ppl 
can flame all they like really.  Personally I don't find them a very good way to 
communicate,  would probably miss what they were flaming about anyway.

> *) the criteria seems to be external projects that are gentoo
> specific, aparently by non-devs/ex-devs.  This raises some questions
> as to what happens for when it's created by a dev externally (pkgcore
> went external a long while before I became an exdev), and what
> happens when the author becomes a dev (I'll be getting my gentoo-x86
> +w back soon enough).

Firstly that is very good news.

Currently I am taking this from Mon, 29 March 19:42 NZ DST.   So pkgcore is 
external,  and you are a community member so your in the list.   I don't want 
to bring a whole pile of history into it.   Will pkgcore have its own gentoo 
project,  or be considered as part of a gentoo project?  Im guessing not 
anyway.

I'm quite happy to consider the corner cases,  and will probably include a 
vast majority of them.  Initially I don't even believe I will have a fully 
complete list of all the projects the fit nicely into my criteria.  Thats why 
you have one of those nice statements that says.

"While we have attempted to list all package/projects etc we are sure we have 
missed some,  please contact ......  if you believe we have missed something 
blah de blah blah"

> *) PMS was started outside of gentoo, and maintained outside gentoo
> for a long while.  Now it's a gentoo project.  A shout out there
> would've been warranted (spec work isn't exactly sexy, regardless of
> any extra baggage that came w/ PMS), but at what point does it
> suddenly fall off this list?

Isn't this a bit too bikesheddy.  If someone, from now, were to create a 
project and then have it added to the list before they become a dev then good 
on them.  The project would not be removed.  Even if it died.  In fact the 
list would never be cleaned.  It may be updated to represent the state of the 
project,  but that project would be there for as long as the page was. (and 
probably longer the way ppl index the interwebs).

> *) kind of the packagekit connundrum- at least for pkgcore/paludis,
> they were written to support multiple distros/formats internally.  Yes
> they've got traction w/in gentoo, but at what point is it no longer a
> gentoo specific thing, and more of a "it gained it's first traction in
> gentoo" ?  Openrc I'd argue is in the same boat- yes it can be used
> elsewhere, but right now we're the owns extracting the most benefit
> from it.

Well I would suggest that a major part of the functionality of both those 
pkg's are directed towards supporting gentoo.   Even if both supported 5-10 
completely different distro's that did not resemble gentoo in the slightest I 
would still put them on the list.  Compare this with kmyfirewall that had a 
single dialog that allowed to be set "gentoo specfic" executable paths which 
would not be on the list.

> *) it slights the tools that started w/in gentoo's vcs; consider
> scanelf .  Very useful tool deserving some credit, but it would be
> exempted under these rules.

Life ain't always perfect.   And that goes both ways.   This isn't a list to 
thank developers for their effort,  make another thread if you want that.

It also doesn't slight that project in the slightest.

> 
> Instead, if the purpose is a "thanks", why not every once in a while
> put up a news item discussing the tools in question?  Such an
> approach allows folk to focus in on whatever is useful/interesting
> (regardless of origination) and give the same 'thanks' angle and
> public exposure for the author in question.

Well I was considering this as well.   But first before we do this we would 
need to actually know what packages there are.  Therefore this thread.  Unless 
we do all packages from aaaaa to zzzzz.


- Alistair

ps. I must say that its a little sad that so far there has been much more 
effort put into nitpicking than actually populating the list (working towards 
the goal).  Which sums up gentoo pretty much.  So lets highlight this part a 
little more

> > If you think that there is a package not specifically
> > targetting gentoo that deserves a mention please make it clear why.

And lets add on "If you think a package should be mentioned for other reasons 
please make it clear why, as well"

Re: [gentoo-dev] List of User projects

[Robin H. Johnson]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 08:31:32PM +1300, Alistair Bush wrote:
> I'm quite happy to consider the corner cases,  and will probably include a 
> vast majority of them.  Initially I don't even believe I will have a fully 
> complete list of all the projects the fit nicely into my criteria.  Thats why 
> you have one of those nice statements that says.
catalyst, genkernel, hwdata, livecd-tools were originally in-house, just
like the parts of baselayout that became openrc, but have moved outside.

I maintain some interesting/useful scripts:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~robbat2/scripts/
- earch
- perl-bump


complex conf.d/net configurations:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~robbat2/conf.d-net/

I wrote genflags:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~robbat2/genflags/
It's now mostly dead, good only for historical research.

"Managed Portage", taking stacked profiles to their extreme:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~robbat2/managed-portage-0.01.tar.bz2

Unfortunately my patchsets and documentation for using Gentoo on SGI
Visual Workstation 320 (visws320) and the XXS1500 MIPS system are very
out of date.

-- 
Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead
E-Mail     : robbat2@gentoo.org
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Re: [gentoo-dev] List of User projects

[Brian Harring]

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On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 08:31:32PM +1300, Alistair Bush wrote:
> > > ps.  I would like the packages to be specifically for gentoo,  but there
> > > are exceptions to this.  as an example openrc (and even paludis to a
> > > degree).  If you think that there is a package not specifically
> > > targetting gentoo that deserves a mention please make it clear why.
> > 
> > I'm a bit torn by this proposal; on the one hand, a shout out is nice-
> > from a career angle it certainly would've been useful for getting
> > some attention/exposure when I first was starting out.
> > 
> 
> Not really my aim.  Im not planning on listing ppl,  just there work.  Might 
> not even put a url pointing to it.

Ok, that clarifies things a bit- I initially misinterpreted your
proposal as more then an external contributors list.


> Currently I am taking this from Mon, 29 March 19:42 NZ DST.   So pkgcore is 
> external,  and you are a community member so your in the list.   I don't want 
> to bring a whole pile of history into it.   Will pkgcore have its own gentoo 
> project,  or be considered as part of a gentoo project?  Im guessing not 
> anyway.

Honestly hadn't thought about pkgcore's status in reference to my 
regaining +w, so I'd assume it'll remain status quo- externally 
hosted.


> ps. I must say that its a little sad that so far there has been much more 
> effort put into nitpicking than actually populating the list (working towards 
> the goal).  Which sums up gentoo pretty much.  So lets highlight this part a 
> little more

Note I'm generally overly specific, intent isn't to rip your proposal 
to tiny little shreds - I actually like the idea, it just didn't seem 
clear if the idea was to focus was on interesting packages and what 
they do (regardless of dev/non-dev origin) or if your intent was to 
focus on non-dev contributions.

I'm *personally* more interested in the former (I like reading about 
cool projects, regardless of who created it), but your intent seems 
more the latter, which is fair enough since you'll be the one doing 
the work.

additions to your list:
* porthole (Brian Dolbec)
* cfg-update (nfc who wrote it, but it was at least at one point a 
reasonably common alternative to etc-update)
* deltup: John J. Whitney, the infra. is maintained on 
gentooexperimental by blackace.  Notable mainly since it's the only 
working delta compression setup for distfiles.. still active last I 
knew, also.

Those   are just a couple of the portage ones I can think of at this 
hour- will update w/ more as I get time

cheers-
~harring

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Re: [gentoo-dev] List of User projects

[Ben de Groot]

On 29 March 2010 09:31, Alistair Bush <ali_bush@gentoo.org> wrote:
> ps. I must say that its a little sad that so far there has been much more
> effort put into nitpicking than actually populating the list (working towards
> the goal).

The problem is that it isn't very clear what exactly the goal is, and what
the criteria for inclusion are. Once you clarify the goal and the criteria
and ask for which packages should be included on that basis, I think
you'll get the answers you're looking for.

Cheers,
-- 
Ben de Groot
Gentoo Linux Qt project lead developer