[gentoo-dev] Making an overlay publicly available?

[gentoo-dev] Making an overlay publicly available?

[Tim Boudreau]

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Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask or if it's in some FAQ I've
missed.

I have an overlay set up here
https://github.com/timboudreau/gentoo
with a number of generally useful things in it (etcd, statsd, flatbuffers,
ebuilds for some fonts available from dafont.com and some X themes).  For
my own use I just add
http://timboudreau.com/files/repositories.xml
to my layman.cfg, but I'd prefer to make it part of the official list of
overlays.

Per the instructions there, I sent email to the address listed on
gpo.zugaina.org; after several months, no response;  tried tweeting about
with a few hashtags I though might bring it to notice of someone in the
know; no response there either.

Some of these are stable, and I'd be happy to maintain them as official
packages if that's of interest - but probably as I'm new to this list, it's
best to start with just getting the overlay available.

Any pointers on where to look if there's a process for this appreciated!

Thanks,

-Tim

-- 
http://timboudreau.com

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Making an overlay publicly available?

[Jauhien Piatlicki]

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Hi,

I was not able to google instructions, but you need to file a bug,
something like https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510028

Ask on gentoo-infra IRC channel for more information.

I think we should add instructions to some place on our wiki, where one
can easy google them.

Regards,
Jauhien



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Re: [gentoo-dev] Making an overlay publicly available?

[Chris Camisa]

On 06/20/2014 04:05 PM, Jauhien Piatlicki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was not able to google instructions, but you need to file a bug,
> something like https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510028
>
> Ask on gentoo-infra IRC channel for more information.
>
> I think we should add instructions to some place on our wiki, where one
> can easy google them.
>
> Regards,
> Jauhien
>
>

Hi Jauhien, Tim,

     Having gone though this recently myself and finding the 
instructions linked at the bottom of this wiki page; 
https://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml I can say the 
process is fairly straight forward.

     Although, do give them some time to process your request. From 
start to finish you must be patient.

Best Regards,
-Christopher Camisa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making an overlay publicly available?

[Norman Rieß]

Am 20.06.2014 23:05, schrieb Jauhien Piatlicki:
> Hi,
> 
> I was not able to google instructions, but you need to file a bug,
> something like https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510028
> 
> Ask on gentoo-infra IRC channel for more information.
> 
> I think we should add instructions to some place on our wiki, where one
> can easy google them.
> 
> Regards,
> Jauhien
> 
> 

Once upon a time there where instructions somewhere to send a mail to
overlays@gentoo.org. My first overlay was added this way. For my other
one i send a similar mail like a year ago and am waiting ever since for
some kind of response.
It would be great if there was some kind of info if the procedure
changes. A auto response from this address would be nice. Simply ignore
mail to that address is kind of the worst possible solution.

Regards,
Norman

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making an overlay publicly available?

[Sergey Popov]

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21.06.2014 01:17, Norman Rieß пишет:
> Am 20.06.2014 23:05, schrieb Jauhien Piatlicki:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was not able to google instructions, but you need to file a bug,
>> something like https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510028
>>
>> Ask on gentoo-infra IRC channel for more information.
>>
>> I think we should add instructions to some place on our wiki, where one
>> can easy google them.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jauhien
>>
>>
> 
> Once upon a time there where instructions somewhere to send a mail to
> overlays@gentoo.org. My first overlay was added this way. For my other
> one i send a similar mail like a year ago and am waiting ever since for
> some kind of response.
> It would be great if there was some kind of info if the procedure
> changes. A auto response from this address would be nice. Simply ignore
> mail to that address is kind of the worst possible solution.

My overlay was added to layman's repositories list when i filed
bugreport(i was ordinary user that time, heh). Let me see.. Ah, there it
is -
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383255

You can use this as example for your bug report.

But anyway, following instructions, mentioned here recently is a nice
too(IIRC, they are useful especially if you want to host your overlay on
our servers).

-- 
Best regards, Sergey Popov
Gentoo developer
Gentoo Desktop-effects project lead
Gentoo Qt project lead
Gentoo Proxy maintainers project lead


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