From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (unknown [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1345B1381FA for ; Mon, 19 May 2014 20:58:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7BE9EE0AF5; Mon, 19 May 2014 20:58:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from raba-115.swcp.com (raba.swcp.com [216.184.2.46]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F01BBE0AF5 for ; Mon, 19 May 2014 20:58:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from chiita.swcp.com (chiita.swcp.com [216.184.2.198]) by raba-115.swcp.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id s4JKw0b3022423 for ; Mon, 19 May 2014 14:58:00 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ebo@sandien.com) Received: from chiita.swcp.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chiita.swcp.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s4JKw0ZR012193 for ; Mon, 19 May 2014 14:58:00 -0600 Received: (from swcpweb@localhost) by chiita.swcp.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id s4JKvxRg012192; Mon, 19 May 2014 14:57:59 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: chiita.swcp.com: swcpweb set sender to ebo@sandien.com using -f To: Subject: Re: [gentoo-soc] Layman Improvements -- introductory report X-PHP-Originating-Script: 47998:main.inc Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 14:57:59 -0600 From: EBo In-Reply-To: <537A5D8B.7070209@gentoo.org> References: <537A5D8B.7070209@gentoo.org> Message-ID: <5a61f70b28b9d28d454e05622f49907a@mail.swcp.com> X-Sender: ebo@sandien.com User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.8.2 X-Archives-Salt: 2e7f061c-05ef-4caf-851d-426ca8ce663d X-Archives-Hash: f9df7e640bba23e03c8bd830bb4a70aa 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 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 " to checkout a repository that is < date/time. EBo --