On 21 October 2013 01:09, hasufell <[email protected]> wrote: > what does the games team think of an official games repository? > > These are some arguments for such a repo: > * sunrise does not allow ebuilds when any version is already in the > tree (so no live or beta ebuilds for existing in-tree-games), so that > is not always a real alternative > * easier contribution and reviews > * let people contribute proprietary games ebuilds here which cannot be > added to the tree, because no dev owns the game > * let people contribute alpha/beta/live/experimental ebuilds here > * deprecate repositories like "gamerlay" which do not undergo any kind > of review and have low quality > * some of the work here can directly flow into the tree > * less decentralization of games ebuilds when there is a central > overlay for contribution and testing > * a lot of other herds already practice this workflow with success > > > Yes, overlays suck. But bugzilla as a review platform sucks more and > IRC is also not the first place people look for. >
I feel most these concerns can be solved by simply migrating the existing SVN based games overlay to git. Branches are much less troublesome under git, and ebuilds can be segregated into branches by relative quality, with mandatory review to escalate the branch an ebuild is in. IME, gitifying things greatly reduces barriers to contribution, and the games svn repo doesn't have the same burdens to migration that gx86 does. So given that, why not just propose a git migration, and then we can work on improving the workflow afterwards. -- Kent
