Re: [gentoo-project] Status update of Sunrise project?

[Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org>]

On 10 April 2015 at 02:57, Thomas Sachau <tommy@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Ben de Groot schrieb:
>> Looking at the sunrise-reviewed repo, there have been no commits in
>> the last four months. So it looks like this project died. Can we get
>> an official update on the status of this project? Also, we should
>> probably remove this from the layman overlays list, since it is no
>> longer maintained.
>>
>> Then we should also redirect users to the proxy-maintainers project as
>> the best way to contribute ebuilds.
>>
>
> There have been some commits to the "not-yet-reviewed" repo of sunrise
> by some people, but i didnt check it, so missed pushing the updates to
> the reviewed repo. Since that is done now, you should see that the last
> commit was only 1 day before your question.

Good to see activity again!

> As an additional note: proxy-maintainers and sunrise are 2 different
> projects with different goals and different tools, you cannot replace
> one with the other unless you want to move all the packages in sunrise
> to the main tree. proxy-maintainers is about users maintaining packages
> in the _main tree_ with the help of developers, sunrise is about users
> maintaining packages in the _sunrise overlay_. So unless the users finds
> a dev willing to add and maintain "his" package(s) in the main tree,
> there is no way to replace sunrise with proxy-maintainers.

I know the difference. But the two projects have similar goals: review
user submitted ebuilds, and commit them to an central repo to make
them available to a wider public. I think it would be good to get more
packages from sunrise into the main gentoo repo.

Are there reasons for some of those packages to be kept out of the main repo?

> Also, if some more devs would be willing to help, that would be nice,
> being the last active dev for the sunrise overlay for some time now and
> i dont like the "bus factor" :-)

Either that, or fold it into the proxy-maintainers project, and get
those packages into the main repo.

-- 
Cheers,

Ben | yngwin
Gentoo developer