Re: [gentoo-dev] A heretical thought? Blessing project sunrise as an almost-fork.

2006-06-13 Thread foser
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 11:10 -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

Re: [gentoo-dev] A heretical thought? Blessing project sunrise as an almost-fork.

2006-06-13 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] A heretical thought? Blessing project sunrise as an almost-fork.

2006-06-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] A heretical thought? Blessing project sunrise as an almost-fork.

2006-06-13 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 02:15:12PM -0400, Ned Ludd wrote: Would moving it from overlays.g.o to overlays.dev.g.o, overlays.experimental.dev.g.o help ? It could then be viewed officially unofficial as the tinderboxing repository's I've been working on. It wouldn't be the ideal solution to

Re: [gentoo-dev] A heretical thought? Blessing project sunrise as an almost-fork.

2006-06-13 Thread Peper
Would moving it from overlays.g.o to overlays.dev.g.o, overlays.experimental.dev.g.o help ? It could then be viewed officially unofficial as the tinderboxing repository's I've been working on. I think it won't make a big difference. It's stated clearly that the sunrise overlay is experimental

Re: [gentoo-dev] A heretical thought? Blessing project sunrise as an almost-fork.

2006-06-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 11:10 -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

Re: [gentoo-dev] A heretical thought? Blessing project sunrise as an almost-fork.

2006-06-13 Thread Peper
(...) Is it just that now we have a lot of developers who are willing to allow users to break their boxes? Just tell me one thing, are you breaking your box everytime you use an overlay? -- Best Regards, Peper -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] A heretical thought? Blessing project sunrise as an almost-fork.

2006-06-13 Thread Jakub Moc
Ned Ludd wrote: On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 18:26 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: 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