Stuart Herbert wrote: > I've been very happy with using svn+trac overlays to bridge this gap. > They provide a sandbox for contributions to be shared and evaluated. > They provide a place where I've been able to give commit access to > non-devs, so that they can learn the ropes w/out threatening the > Portage tree proper. They provide a place where people who just want > to write docs for a single package can contribute. > > Overlays create a sense of participation that's lacking with Bugzilla > patch submissions. Backed up with regular communication (I recommend > not recruiting anyone who won't spend time in the IRC channels, but > that's a personal preference), they help us get things done quicker. > > The downside with overlays at the moment is that they're scattered > around the net, and if you don't know where to look they can be very > hard to find. I've been talking with infra about providing > overlays.g.o as a central hosting service for herd and individual > developer overlays. Infra have been very supportive of the idea. I > just need to free up some time to get the service launched.
This definitely sounds like a fun idea. It would be even cooler if we were using a distributed SCM on both ends that allowed for easy merging. Donnie
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