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 4.54) id 1FMVlk-0001d8-HI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:46:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2NJkKVO013010; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:46:20 GMT Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.184] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2NJgmVG020551 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:42:48 GMT Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x37so403995nfc for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:42:48 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=DzwaS8LjrdeiCyPa+tx/yQ7ATT7A2k3aBL/mHZ2tX7JotpUQhXgoxW0N67AZ/19iPA7BN86LLSFcy9B/gsWmE/ruV3DPQM4k0G7Mlarsw48e+xKO1GaMtDiWfEwtIEQiKRAxCxQkN+MyrTAoPOioGDvIPWdu2e0pv1OE0IFwrWA= Received: by 10.49.15.10 with SMTP id s10mr667528nfi; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:42:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.48.211.12 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:42:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:42:48 +0000 From: "Stuart Herbert" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support In-Reply-To: <200603231410.52121.dostrow@gentoo.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <441F35B9.8000406@gentoo.org> <20060323184148.73e44f21@snowdrop.home> <4422EF83.6000705@gentoo.org> <200603231410.52121.dostrow@gentoo.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k2NJgmVG020551 X-Archives-Salt: 548eea1f-ec84-4de2-b8be-6082f744dfc9 X-Archives-Hash: cbe43abcb7b518cae0a3bb504fed07a0 On 3/23/06, Daniel Ostrow wrote: > That is not what Stuart said, he indicated that overlays would be treated as > supported systems including the use of our bugzilla system to track defects. > If that is the case it crosses the line into the land of the "official" in > which case policys start to be applied. We do need to apply policies to the overlays. We can't have an absolute free-for-all. Projects and individual developers need to be responsible for their overlays - just like they are responsible for the packages they add to the tree. But we are not going to treat overlays like they're the Portage tree. That would undermine the whole point of having the overlays in the first place, and would bring zero benefit to our users and our developers. They are different, and they require a different approach. Best regards, Stu -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list