Re: [gentoo-science] website python error

["Marcus D. Hanwell" <cryos@gentoo.org>]

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On Friday 15 September 2006 05:22, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
> > Not sure about the links from the overlays.g.o, gentooscience.org was
> > created before the overlays think had even been discussed as a solution
> > to a problem. It is advertised here, and on the IRC channel but it would
> > be good to get it more widely advertised.
>
> Pretty sure they're not interested in linking to external overlays. If
> you want a link, and to save some time on maintenance and future
> breakage, it might be easier to just migrate to their hosting.
>
Like I said I set this up before overlays was available. I don't mind 
performing the maintenance but if most would rather migrate then that is fine 
with me too. I don't think there is anything special about overlays.g.o but 
my time is becoming more limited anyway and so handing off administration 
would not be a bad thing.

I personally think trac adds little more than a source browser - the ticket 
system needs work to be more useful and I haven't had time to work out the 
niggles. It gets spammed regularly too. I notice they have turned it off 
(which is what I was thinking of doing).

To quote from their site 'You don't have to have an overlay at all, and if you 
do have one, you are absolutely free to host your own overlay somewhere else. 
You don't have to host an overlay on o.g.o for it to be 
considered "official".' If the general opinion is to move then please let me 
know and I will contact someone from the project about migrating the overlay.

I really dislike how the authentication is not encrypted (or is it now?), but 
that may be just me and my opinions/levels of paranoia on the whole thing... 
It appears you don't have to go on o.g.o to be "official" whatever that means 
according to their own web page - see the bottom of 
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/devguide.xml

Give me opinions guys. I am not going to hold the overlay hostage but I would 
rather it was moved for a real reason rather than this being the latest new 
shiny thing... I can place a full back up of the SVN repo online somewhere if 
you want to move it or have a copy...

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