On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 11:10:47AM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: > Over the years we've had a fairly consistent stream of suggestions that > we should open up the e-build maintaining process to users instead of > just devs. The main arguments against it are the security issues and an > expectation that it would add to developer workloads. The former is > certainly a real problem, although signing (assuming a reasonable > web-of-trust) could mitigate that some (at least we'd know who to > blame). The latter, however, is conjecture, and the only good way to > verify it would be to actually try it and see what happens. Oh, and > there's also a very real fear that if things go horribly wrong, that > Gentoo's reputation would suffer quite badly. Perhaps I'm naive, but I > tend to think that if we were to advertise project sunrise as > experimental, temporary, use-at-your-own-risk, and > might-break-your-system, and even put it on hardware without a > gentoo.org address and add a portage hook that warns whenever the > project sunrise overlay is used, then our reputation isn't really likely > to suffer even if it's a complete disaster. > > So, Chris, what have I failed to address that would make this a really > bad idea?
As I've said all along - I do not have any problems with Project Sunrise. I have a problem with it being an official project hosted on *.gentoo.org, as I fear most users will think "hey, it's official, it's hosted on *.gentoo.org - it can't be that bad". Judging from the few users who have posted to the previous threads on this subject, my fear seems to be reasonable. If the project was to be hosted on a non *.gentoo.org domain (I'll let infra comment on whether or not non *.gentoo.org domains can be hosted on infra hardware) my current issues with this project would be gone. If the project proves to be healthy and not affect the reputation of Gentoo in a bad way, we could consider adopting it as an official project after a period of time. Sincerely, Brix -- Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Metadistribution | Mobile computing herd
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