-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 07:43 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: >> What I would like to propose is that we have an official (yes, official) >> cvs overlay that is used by developers *and* contributors to commit new >> ebuilds and changes to. Mirrors would still pull, as they always have, >> from the gentoo-x86 cvs repo. "Official" Gentoo developers would then be >> able to take from the overlay and commit to the main tree at will, but >> have a common stomping ground for contributors and developers to work in >> without fear of breaking the rest of the tree. We reward those users >> (pardon the terms if you find that condescending, its not intended as >> such) with the drive and passion, but not the means, resources, or time, >> by making them contributors to this overlay, where they can make cvs >> commits. >> >> This overlay wouldn't necessarily need to be the whole of the tree, >> either. Some areas, such as profiles, could be absent, as well as select >> projects (perhaps the kernel and toolchain portions?). These >> contributors wouldn't need to have a flood of @gentoo.org email >> addresses - they are only contributors who, for whatever reason, are not >> actually full scale developers. > > I'm just asking, but isn't this exactly what Sunrise is supposed to be? > > Isn't this the reason it was approved by the previous Council?
Well the difference is that AFAIK Sunrise is just for maintainer-wanted stuff that's not in the tree yet, but Michael talks about (rev)bumps of stuff that's already in tree. Personally I think that project/herd overlays with non-dev contributors already work well (at least for Java team) and don't see much benefit in some overlay for everything. - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGaE+8tbrAj05h3oQRAqtqAKCeMu7nTKYosVtvMhQZxQXdz0wHhQCglNqa uBMP6ZZCoidKPlgruJWt6gE= =wsIC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
