-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Carsten Lohrke wrote: > On Thursday 08 June 2006 02:42, Stefan Schweizer wrote: >> Initially jokey and myself will be working on this. The current focus is to >> migrate ebuilds from bugzilla into the overlay and to get contributors to >> commit their changes to the overlay instead of updating the bugzilla every >> time. > > Can't agree with that. Users should a) post their ebuilds at bugzilla, since > it is the place, we track request and b) get them from there, forced to > maintain their own overlay (and actually look at each ebuild), than trust > some arbitrary overlay, that is neither supported security wise, nor is > ensured that the ebuilds have a minimal quality (do not fubar a users > system). > > Overlays make sense to perform changes how a whole range of packages are > handled, to be merged with the official Portage tree, later.
Agreed. While this is in theory an excellent idea, it won't help right now. In my opinion, what we really need is for some community members to step up and create "the world's <lauditory adjective> Gentoo-ebuild-related "clearinghouse", better than BMG etc., that could be used as a better means of submitting ebuilds to bugzie. That way there's much more outside testing and widespread use before (hopefully) very high quality ebuilds and/or overlays are submitted to bugzilla for official Gentoo review. So the workload on the Gentoo devs would be greatly reduced, instead of having to (now) police ebuilds in at least two different locations. Overlays are a pain to manage as it is. I understand that Sunrise is trying to solve the central problem of maintainers, but right now it sounds like it's doing it in a very roundabout, ineffective manner. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEiFKFrsJQqN81j74RAu9XAKCOuXMRWIKQqlVXpAzA9s2DvGA03QCfaGjp f2zhH9DNu9dLONvnh1ACtK4= =kuou -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
