On 05/16/2012 02:29 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Kacper Kowalik <xarthisius@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> I'd like to propose that we create and maintain overlay for Python
>> project. As I envision it, it would mostly oriented towards the users
>> (read new developers). We could encourage people to push new version
>> bumps there, keep packages not-yet-ready for tree (alphas,betas,rc) etc.
> 
> Can you say something about what/how this would make things better
> (either for users/almost-developer holdouts or for us)?

Also forgot to mentioned that, overlay is the only place where you can
learn the Gentoo workflow, _before_ becoming an actual dev.
In overlay you can do things like, repoman commit, manifest signing,
package{.use} masking etc. That's IMO invaluable experience for would-be
dev. It's one thing writing about it in quizzes and another actually
doing it.

Kacper