On 06/07/2016 10:31 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > > Your thoughts? > > > [1]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Sunrise > > Sunrise was a great way to learn packaging for Gentoo. Reviews were > *very* > strict in the past, resulting in better QA standards than the Gentoo > main tree But here's the funny thing:
While there was a syntactical review that made these ebuilds wonderfully strict no one seems to have compile-tested them. So when I ran a test-build over all of sunrise about half the packages had invalid SRC_URI, didn't compile, patches didn't apply, etc. So from my perspective it was *useless* enforcement of arbitrary rules with little to show for it. > - and a definite frustration threshold that one had to overcome. With > a couple > of packages in Sunrise, doing the quizzes was a piece of cake though. > > That said... > > If there's no activity anymore, we definitely should remove the > overlay from > Layman and (important!) remove the mentions of Sunrise from our web pages > (e.g., "contributing to Gentoo"). > > We now have functioning and active alternatives, see proxy-maintainers. > >
