Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
I never tried to keep the overlay secret, but why should users have to
set up a myriad of overlays if they just want to run a system? May be you
would be better off becoming a developer and adding stuff to the tree? If we
follow a trend of keeping more and more stuff in various overlays then Gentoo
just becomes more of a pain to run IMHO.
I am hoping to get more proactive in moving suitable ebuilds from the overlay
to the main tree in the near future. I will also be encouraging other devs to
do the same if they are not already. So the overlay will get smaller as stuff
is moved. Hopefully some of our active herd testers will go on to become
developers and maintain some of this stuff themselves too.
May be the aims of the overlay should be more clearly defined through debate
and documented on the overlay site. I am away for the week starting in about
one hour anyway... I will catch up on discussions when I get back. It would
be good to hear what more people think about this subject - may be I am on my
own with my opinions?
I think it would be a good thing if some interested users do some
additionally testing of "in work" ebuilds, so that the applications are
tested on a wider range of hardware and configurations. As a move to
o.g.o would reduce maintainance as well, I'm in favour of this.
gentooscience.org could then redirect there.
Jan
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