On 6/8/06, Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Will you also review the code each and every ebuild pull down over the internet?
The policy for overlays.gentoo.org hosting [1] is hopefully clear: as the project leads, they're ultimately responsible (and therefore accountable) for what goes into their project overlay - no matter whether it's committed by a dev or by a user who has been entrusted with commit rights to the overlay. The policy for what can go into an overlay is also hopefully clear: overlays are for package trees, their patchsets, any docs, and any downloadable tarballs that have nowhere else to be hosted. It's not there to be $UPSTREAM, except for eselect modules, -config scripts and the like that exist purely to support ebuilds in the package tree. I expect projects and developers who are using overlays to be respectful of others. The whole point of the overlays project is to continue our work in trying to get our users much more involved in developing Gentoo. It's there to be a stepping stone for getting packages into the tree - although I do not expect every package in overlays to end up in the tree. Any hostile hijacking of other people's packages doesn't fit into that vision, and there's no place for it on o.g.o. I also expect projects and developers who are not using overlays to be equally respectful of those who are. There are projects and developers who find overlays an excellent way of safely testing and developing ebuilds, and who find overlays to be a good way to help train and develop the next generation of Gentoo developers (good developers are something we really need more of). If any overlay is ultimately an abuse of the hosting that the overlays project provides, then your first course of redress is with the overlay's owner. If you're still unhappy, then come and talk to me as the Overlays Project team lead. I'm here to listen, and if necessary to act. If I don't agree, you can still go to the Council as a last resort if you feel that strongly about it. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/policy.xml Best regards, Stu -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list