On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 17:48 +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > The time it takes to actually apply fixes etc. is another point.
This is where I'd respectfully disagree. > Bugzilla is a poor system for sharing and managing the flow of > ebuilds and patches. It would be nice if there were a way for non-devs > to publish ebuilds/fixes using a VCS so that they could be shared and > easily pulled and applied to the main tree. It takes too long to > browse bugzilla, find bugs, find ebuilds and patches, download them, > copy to an overlay, fix digests, emerge, etc. and most users will > figure it's not worth the hassle. You mean all of the things that developers have to do, right? Funny, but I thought the idea for the overlays was to groom developers, not to provide low-quality half-working ebuilds to users. Perhaps if we had a bug-tracking system that integrated better with a version control system, allowing for easier access to the ebuilds/patches/etc within a bug report, yet without providing a "free for all" as the current project suggests? I really don't know what kind of solution would be proper for this, but I do know that the current idea of an overlay for the entire tree is not something that should be taken lightly and definitely not something that should *ever* be done without discussion. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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