From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GPEeX-0006a1-Px for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:38:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8I8cDS8011547; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:38:13 GMT Received: from ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (ms-2.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.131]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8I8cCYx025504 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:38:12 GMT Received: from r220-1 (r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.31]) by ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J5S003YU5BMI3@ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de> for gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:38:11 +0200 (MEST) Received: from relay.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.3.1]) by r220-1 (MailMonitor for SMTP v1.2.2 ) ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:38:10 +0200 (MEST) Received: from [137.226.40.101] (pc42.xtal.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.40.101]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.7/8.13.3/1) with ESMTP id k8I8cA7g012506 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:38:10 +0200 (MEST) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:40:48 +0200 From: Jan Marten Simons Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] website python error In-reply-to: <200609180843.12369.cryos@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <450E5B90.6030400@xtal.rwth-aachen.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-science@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060803) References: <200609130935.29872.slug@aeminium.org> <200609151257.00581.cryos@gentoo.org> <200609180843.12369.cryos@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: c569f360-8fa3-4c3e-b40a-94e778aa3740 X-Archives-Hash: f6056c1bd21e2829a329c122e6b1edb4 Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: > I never tried to keep the overlay secret, but why should users have to > set up a myriad of overlays if they just want to run a system? May be you > would be better off becoming a developer and adding stuff to the tree? If we > follow a trend of keeping more and more stuff in various overlays then Gentoo > just becomes more of a pain to run IMHO. > > I am hoping to get more proactive in moving suitable ebuilds from the overlay > to the main tree in the near future. I will also be encouraging other devs to > do the same if they are not already. So the overlay will get smaller as stuff > is moved. Hopefully some of our active herd testers will go on to become > developers and maintain some of this stuff themselves too. > > May be the aims of the overlay should be more clearly defined through debate > and documented on the overlay site. I am away for the week starting in about > one hour anyway... I will catch up on discussions when I get back. It would > be good to hear what more people think about this subject - may be I am on my > own with my opinions? > I think it would be a good thing if some interested users do some additionally testing of "in work" ebuilds, so that the applications are tested on a wider range of hardware and configurations. As a move to o.g.o would reduce maintainance as well, I'm in favour of this. gentooscience.org could then redirect there. Jan -- gentoo-science@gentoo.org mailing list