On 09/06/06, Luis Francisco Araujo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Chris Bainbridge wrote:
> There are already loads of semi-official overlays. Besides the stuff
> actually hosted by gentoo (random example
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/bzr/overlay/) there are official
> groups (again, not picking on anyone but exampes would be java, php,
> webapps...) with semi-official overlays. I don't know if the overlays
> are actually hosted on gentoo hardware, but when they're run by gentoo
> devs, publically available, and referred to in forums, bugzilla,
> mailing lists etc. then that at least makes them "semi-official".
I don't agree with that "semi-official" term.
We for example have an overlay for the Haskell project. Nevertheless,
we consider it the official overlay for our group, but not for Gentoo. So
that way we can use it as our sand-box, to play with it as much as we
can, and giving commit access to even non-developers, the advantage
The Haskell overlay isn't publically available (at least, layman
doesn't know about it). That makes it quite different from the
"semi-official" overlays I gave as examples.
Whether something is "semi-official" or not is all about perception.
If people see that a project is run by gentoo developers, possibly
formed into a gentoo group, using gentoo resources (bugzilla, forums,
mailing lists etc) to discuss and organise, then there will be a
perception that the project has some semblance of officiality.
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