[Snip] > Maybe you just want Sunrise in the main tree instead of as a dedicated, > supervised overlay. There were people with VERY strong feelings against > Sunrise, to the point I believe at least one dev opposing it resigned > over it Yes, one did. Some people just need a good excuse to leave :)
> and other boosting it were disciplined. Not that I remember. > Are you ready to take on > that sort of opposition to get it in-tree? Maybe it's time to have that > debate. Oh be quiet. Sunrise is a quite convenient testing ground, and I've borrowed quite a few ebuilds from there for the main tree. I haven't seen any issues in the last few months, those opposed seem to have finally accepted that users collaborating is not a stupid idea. And you get a nice recruiting area for free ... [Snip] > If there's a place for the new project and maybe there is, the > differences from and relationship with the Sunrise and proxy-maint > projects, and the method of bringing in or justification for ignoring the > hundreds of existing m-needed packages while arguably creating more, > needs mapped out. Alternatively, bend the proposal into a status change > for one or all of the above, and call a debate on that. I'd be for a discussion of "all of the above" since they are quite strongly linked.