Re: [gentoo-science] sci team help

["Sébastien Fabbro" <bicatali@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 00:20 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On 12:01 Tue 16 Oct     , Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
> > The original cryos' idea when he created the science overlay was a place to 
> > develop ebuilds until they become mature enough to be moved to the main 
> > tree (I can dig his original post about this subject). He suggested that 
> > ebuilds whould, in most cases, be moved to the main tree quickly enough.
> 
> OK, sure, but historic reasons are not future reasons. If things should 
> change, this is not a reason to hold it back.
> 

These days, the overlay is more of a sandbox for devs and a place to
ease package transition from bugzilla to the tree. Why some packages are
still in the overlay rather than in the main tree to me is only a matter
of manpower. Hopefully some day Gentoo will get more modular- right now
our cvs repository is gigantic and as you all know this means more
inertia. 

> > 1. Inform users *prominently* that some interesting packages don't live in 
> > the main portage tree (currently, not many users know this).
> 
> Yep.
> 

Well anyone who has commit access to the overlay is welcome to add
anything relevant to the wiki trac page.

> 	- Is it expected to be fairly popular, or is it extremely specific?

It's hard to judge this. We have the CC and votes at bugs.gentoo.org,
but as useful as bugzilla could be, it is not the zen-est interface.
Many times I feel that our tendency to resolve all issues with bugzilla
reduces productivity both for bugs reporters and bugs resolvers.

Anyway it is nice to see the science project is generating interest.

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Sébastien

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