[gentoo-soc] Layman Improvements -- introductory report

[gentoo-soc] Layman Improvements -- introductory report

[Devan Franchini]

Hello Gentoo community!

For this GSoC 2014 I've been accepted by the Gentoo Foundation to work on
improvements to the Gentoo tool, Layman. I will have two mentors[1] the official
one on my Google melange is Matthew Summers (quantumsummers)[2], and Brian
Dolbec (dol-sen).

Throughout the summer I hope to expand the available repo types supported along
with adding new features such as:

* Repo URL updating
* Syncing overlays through portage
* A utility script for creating layman XML definitions
* Per repo branch user settings.

To list a few.

Source Code:

Re: [gentoo-soc] Layman Improvements -- introductory report

[Anthony G. Basile]

On 05/19/14 14:44, Devan Franchini wrote:
> Hello Gentoo community!
>
> For this GSoC 2014 I've been accepted by the Gentoo Foundation to work on
> improvements to the Gentoo tool, Layman. I will have two mentors[1] the official
> one on my Google melange is Matthew Summers (quantumsummers)[2], and Brian
> Dolbec (dol-sen).
>
> Throughout the summer I hope to expand the available repo types supported along
> with adding new features such as:
>
> * Repo URL updating
> * Syncing overlays through portage
> * A utility script for creating layman XML definitions
> * Per repo branch user settings.
>
> To list a few.
>
> Source Code:
>
Brian, Devan and Matt,

Feature request: layamn -b <branch> <overlay> to switch branches on git 
overlays.

--Tony

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Re: [gentoo-soc] Layman Improvements -- introductory report

[Brian Dolbec]

On Mon, 19 May 2014 15:37:47 -0400
"Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 05/19/14 14:44, Devan Franchini wrote:
> > Hello Gentoo community!
> >
> > For this GSoC 2014 I've been accepted by the Gentoo Foundation to
> > work on improvements to the Gentoo tool, Layman. 

> Brian, Devan and Matt,
> 
> Feature request: layamn -b <branch> <overlay> to switch branches on
> git overlays.
> 
> --Tony
> 

IT's already on his TODO list :)

branches for all possible repo types actually, like git, svn,...
the underlying code mechanism should be similar.


 cvs already has it's subpath

Devan, your clue to implementing it ^_^  :)

-- 
Brian Dolbec

Re: [gentoo-soc] Layman Improvements -- introductory report

[EBo]

On May 19 2014 1:37 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
> On 05/19/14 14:44, Devan Franchini wrote:
>> Hello Gentoo community!
>>
>> For this GSoC 2014 I've been accepted by the Gentoo Foundation to 
>> work on
>> improvements to the Gentoo tool, Layman. I will have two mentors[1] 
>> the official
>> one on my Google melange is Matthew Summers (quantumsummers)[2], and 
>> Brian
>> Dolbec (dol-sen).
>>
>> Throughout the summer I hope to expand the available repo types 
>> supported along
>> with adding new features such as:
>>
>> * Repo URL updating
>> * Syncing overlays through portage
>> * A utility script for creating layman XML definitions
>> * Per repo branch user settings.
>>
>> To list a few.
>>
>> Source Code:
>>
> Brian, Devan and Matt,
>
> Feature request: layamn -b <branch> <overlay> to switch branches on
> git overlays.

Not sure if it is appropriate to chime in, but I would also add a 
feature request for a "-d <date/time stamp>" to checkout a repository 
that is < date/time.

   EBo --