Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support

["Stuart Herbert" <stuart.herbert@gmail.com>]

Hi Andres,

On 3/24/06, Andres Loeh <kosmikus@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Here's a list of things that I think are essential or highly helpful to
> our working process:
>
> * We should be allowed to continue using darcs for our version management.
>  If that's not possible on Gentoo infra, we should be allowed to host on
>  another machine and just have a pointer or ChangeLog on o.g.o.

Unless I've missed it, no-one else has spoken up and suggested what
the second VCS should be.  I'll have a play with darcs as soon as I
can, and talk with infra about whether we can support it or not.  Is
it okay if I come and pick your brains to help with this?

> * It should be possible for us to assign commit permissions to any people
>  we think are qualified without any formalities and delay.

Absolutely.  This is one of the corner-stones of the project.

> It would work, of course, and it would help prevent certain complaints,
> but it's not absolutely necessary. If "on request" is chosen, it's also
> important that read access can be given by us without any delay, i.e.,
> without going through any formal process.

The only formallity is that the request will need to come from the
project lead listed on your project's page under
www.g.o/proj/<lang>/<project>/.  I need to talk to infra first, but in
principle I don't see a problem with project leads being allowed to
delegate that power.

Best regards,
Stu

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