[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Peter
On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:51:25 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: First, let me say that I'm approaching this from a user's perspective. I have no insight or knowledge as to the history of the overlay project or any of the people involved. I _do_ know that since late 2004 when I first switched to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Alec Warner
Why? Because having two year old bugs is simply inexcusable. Especially when many have not had any activity for a long time. Having maintainer-wanted bugs for months on end is silly. Giving a user who files a ebuild request or submits an ebuild deserves the chance to take ownership of it. It's a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 16:23 -0400, Peter wrote: I did not read anything that implied o.g.o would bypass anything other than a lengthy wait in bugzilla land. Other distros have their experimental/testing branches, why can't gentoo? *cough* ~arch *cough* What everybody seems to miss is that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Luis Francisco Araujo
Peter wrote: On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:51:25 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: First, let me say that I'm approaching this from a user's perspective. I have no insight or knowledge as to the history of the overlay project or any of the people involved. I _do_ know that since late 2004 when I first