On 15:16 Wed 08 Jun, Alexander Berntsen wrote: > Friends, > > It would be wise of us to create a novel way of involving users from > the ashes of Sunrise. > > Here is my suggestion: It would be fruitful to encourage every single > Gentoo user to have their own repository. And this repository should > be publicly available. > > This way we can merge useful things from people, and they can submit > pull-requests if they have useful things that are not in the tree. > Before merging anything to the main tree, ebuilds should of course be > carefully reviewed. Users could also review each other's ebuilds to > ensure better quality ebuilds. > > This could lead to a future where the Gentoo tree is largely > superseded. Every user would just have their own repository, where > they could pick and choose packages from other users. The Gentoo tree > would just focus on a high-quality repository of the basic/core things > that everybody needs. Gentoo devs would spend most of their time > maintaining curated small and useful repositories.
How all those people are expected to coordinate their work? I mean if personA is going to drop the library that is required by personB, personC and personD he should probably notify them beforehands. Thus he needs a tool to monitor who the hell depends on him. Either that or all repo masters will have to bundle their own versions of every library that is not in ::gentoo in order to prevent sudden breackages.
